Physiologist Ivan Milenkovic appointed

Dr. Ivan Milenkovic has been appointed Professor of Physiology at the Department of Human Medicine. Prior to his appointment in Oldenburg he led a research group and held an associate professor position at the medical faculty of Leipzig University.

Milenkovic studied molecular biology, physiology and neurophysiology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. In 2000 he moved to Leipzig University’s Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research, where he received his doctorate in 2002. He then took a postdoctoral research post at the Department of Neurobiology in Leipzig, where he earned his Habilitation in 2010 in the field of neurobiology/developmental biology. Research stays took Milenkovic to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, among others. Since 2014 he moved to the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology at Leipzig University’s medical faculty where he led an independent research group. By employing various electrophysiological methods, Milenkovic investigates the activity-dependent development of neuronal networks in the central auditory system.