Michael Sixt is a medical doctor. He studied at the University of Erlangen, postdoc at the Institute of Experimental Pathology at Lund University, Sweden. He was group leader at the Max Planck Institute Martinsried in Germany from 2005-2010 and Endowed Professor of the 2005-2010 Peter Hans Hofschneider Foundation for Experimental Biomedicine.

Michael Sixt is professor at ISTA since 2013 and Executive Vice President of ISTA since 2014.