She is noted for her study of glial cells and holds a chair at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich's Department of Physiology.
[4] Current investigations study the mechanisms involved in determining how adult neural stem cells are specified.
Götz current work focuses on refining ways to reprogram glial cells into neurons in organisms with traumatic brain injury.
After her promotion and until 1996, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research, London and Smith Kline Beecham, Harlow.
[1] Götz led an independent Research Group at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Munich between 1997 and 2003.