Dr. Tamgüney investigates the propagation of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Tamgüney studied biochemistry and pursued his PhD at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. As a postdoc and later as an assistant professor, Dr. Tamgüney worked on prion diseases with Nobel Laureate Dr. Stanley Prusiner at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF. In 2011, Dr. Tamgüney established his laboratory at DZNE in Bonn, Germany. He has held fellowships by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, the German Research Foundation, and the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation. In 2017, he received the Junior Faculty Award at the AD/PD 2017 conference in Vienna. Since 2019, he is a research group leader at the Institute of Biological Information Processing, Structural Biochemistry (IBI-7) of Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Institute of Physical Biology at Düsseldorf University, where he was appointed Professor in 2020.