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Tim studied physics at the University of Heidelberg with brief stints at the California Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science. He then entered the field of computational neuroscience by starting a PhD project at the Humboldt University Berlin, working on sound encoding in the insect ear. For his postdoctoral work at Harvard University, he switched to studying the retina, which has been his field of research ever since. He started his own lab as a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martisried and later transferred his lab to the University Medical Center Göttingen when he was appointed professor.