Jorg Grandl

I am a biophysicist, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, and Director of the NIH-T32 Neurobiology Graduate Training Grant at Duke University. I received my PhD from the Ecole Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and completed an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship with Nobel Laureate Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps, La Jolla.

My research investigates the biophysics of force-gated ion channels and cellular mechanotransduction. This work produced over 30 publications, including in Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and Neuron. My past trainees have continued scientific training at academic institutions such as Harvard, The Broad Institute, MD Anderson, Rockefeller, and Yale, or in the private biomedical sector. I served on study sections for NIH R01, R03, R35, R00/K99, F32 and P20 awards, and for the German Research Foundation (DFG) Emmy Noether Award, and I regularly peer-review manuscripts for Nature, Science, Neuron, eLife, PNAS, and others.

From 2018 to 2025 I served as the Director of Duke Neurobiology Graduate Studies. In this role I coordinated and directed all daily aspects of the Duke Neurobiology Graduate Training Program. Since July 2025 I serve Duke as Director of the NIH-T32 Neurobiology Graduate Training Grant.