Tobias Bonhoeffer (born January 9, 1960 in Berkeley, California) is a German-American neurobiologist. He is director of the department Synapses – Circuits – Plasticity and current managing director at the , in foundation (formerly Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)). His father, the neurobiologist Friedrich Bonhoeffer, was director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen.