Michael Feyerabend studied neurosciences at the University of Cologne and Georg-August University of Göttingen and received his PhD from Prof. Jochen Staiger at the Institute of Neuroanatomy on "Thalamocortical Innervation of GABAergic Interneuronen in the primary vibrissal somatosensorian cortex of mouse". He is a guest in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.