 She was promoted in 1992 at the Friedrich-Miescher Laboratory of the Max-Planck Society, Tübingen.After her promotion and until 1996, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research, London and Smith Kline Bechaam, Harlow.Magdalena Götz led between 1997 and 2003 an independent Research Group at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Munich.