Dr Trapp is Professor of Autonomic Neuroscience and Metabolic Disease and, together with Professor Alexander Gourine, heads the UCL Center for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (CCMN). He trained as a biologist at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. He obtained his PhD at the Georg August University in Goettingen, Germany, with studies on the cellular physiology of vagal neurons and the first description of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in autonomic neurons. Dr Trapp then relocated as a DFG-Fellow to Oxford in order to study the molecular properties of these channels in detail with Prof Frances Ashcroft, FRS. Subsequently, he obtained a Career Development Award from the MRC and established the Autonomic Lab, first at University College London, and then at Imperial where he became a Lecturer in 2006 and Senior Lecturer in 2008. Dr Trapp joined UCL's Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology in 2013.