Mathias Jucker is Professor of Cell Biology of Neurological Diseases and a director at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen. He is also a group leader at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). Jucker earned his Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. He was then a postdoc and research scientist at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, USA. He returned to Switzerland as an assistant professor (START fellow) at the University of Basel and in 2003 was called to his current position in Tübingen.

The focus of his research is on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Noteworthy are his efforts to translate fundamental and preclinical research into clinical studies and his commitment to the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN). He has received several honors and prizes, including the Hamburg Science Award for Dementia Research (2013), the MetLife Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer´s Disease in New York (2014), and the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) (2020).