Faculty Members of the Max Planck School of Cognition
![Katrin Amunts](/18388/original-1673440568.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM4OH0%3D--981cf5076eeadfb8e757842c5d1e39d6c7e95c79)
Katrin Amunts
Research interests: • development of a multilevel, multimodal atlas of the human brain • cytoarchitectonic, molecular and fiber architecture of the brain • image analysis, high-performance computing and big data analytics • Brain function and behavior • ethics
![Elisabeth B. Binder](/18384/original-1701775702.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM4NH0%3D--a57c21ee3a58aa830b953f927278948e7b62cd98)
Elisabeth B. Binder
Research interests: • molecular basis of mood and anxiety disorders using genome-wide technologies
• stress response and early adverse experience in human and cell models
• mechanisms of gene x environment interactions in psychiatry• epigenetic mechanism relevant for psychiatric risk
![Ulrike Bingel](/125784/original-1698821003.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxMjU3ODR9--453b3c76c3e2ecf814d64bf8a6a06473350d848b)
Ulrike Bingel
Faculty Member from October 2023![Jan Born](/53552/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo1MzU1Mn0%3D--9e205fc02378542b9931a74478a853087e605ae7)
Jan Born
Research interests: • sleep and memory • regulation of food intake • memory during early development
![Michael Brecht](/18392/original-1560328034.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM5Mn0%3D--c9a24fd30865987f11be6fbde499de8745c59935)
Michael Brecht
Research interests: • active touch and object recognition • social and sexual touch
• cortical organization • cellular basis of sensations and movement generation
• hippocampal and parahippocampal activity linked to spatial navigation
![Christian Büchel](/18400/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQwMH0%3D--4ee6e09f4888f982f05fed4d8db44c98da50d1f3)
Christian Büchel
Research interests: • neural mechanisms underlying pain, reward, fear and decision processes • high resolution fMRI techniques including spinal fMRI • parallel EEG-fMRI to combine high spatial with high temporal resolution • computational modelling to combine behavior with imaging/EEG
![Peter Dayan](/18317/original-1665145395.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMxN30%3D--8be9ce3c166440c6018b544a2a0efa9d60d95161)
Peter Dayan
Research interests: • neural reinforcement learning • neuromodulation
metacognition • computational psychiatry •
representational learning
![Christian F. Doeller](/18402/original-1671706109.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQwMn0%3D--1ca9837f429d87c50e95a4d9dd1c927763552bcf)
Christian F. Doeller
Research interests: • cognitive neuroscience of memory, navigation, perception, knowledge, learning & decision making • population coding in hippocampal formation; neural metric of cognitive spaces • structure-function mapping; brain oscillations • (high-field) fMRI, MEG, virtual reality, machine learning • translational neuroscience: Alzheimer’s disease; cognitive enhancement
![Emrah Düzel](/18404/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQwNH0%3D--5863d09fd19d84a3076353446fd95a10206f7be9)
Emrah Düzel
Research interests: • dementias • memory • cognition • imaging •electrophysiology
![Isabel Dziobek](/18311/original-1565350348.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMxMX0%3D--38a72ac294e5f228654ca91073242449efb551ac)
Isabel Dziobek
Research interests: • social cognition/interaction, empathy, Theory of Mind, emotion and face processing • development and validation of tests and interventions for socio-emotional competencies and empathy • kinesthetic empathy and socio-emotional effects of synchronization • neuronal correlates of social cognition using functional and structural MRI • social interaction disorders (e.g. autism spectrum conditions, personality disorders, schizophrenia) • biological basis as well as diagnosis, intervention and integration of individuals with autism spectrum disorder • social robotics
![Simon B. Eickhoff](/18309/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMwOX0%3D--79e82aaddfd9809ebd39e9476babe382dc881f89)
Simon B. Eickhoff
Forschungsinteressen: • mapping the human brain in terms of areas and networks • application of machine-learning to neuroimaging data • modeling inter-individual variability in cognitive functions • clinical translation of imaging neuroscience
![Christoph Engel (only co-supervision of candidates)](/18370/original-1665555269.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM3MH0%3D--c85194d2830ed194a9f934dbd39563067c9f4f08)
Christoph Engel (only co-supervision of candidates)
Research interests: • experimental law and economics • behavioral law and economics • legal theory • economic law
![Peter Falkai](/18380/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM4MH0%3D--67df40a716064078ed450dd827eec0c209a139ae)
Peter Falkai
Research interests: • identification of candidate pathways for the pathophysiology of schizophrenia • brain plasticity across the psychosis spectrum • recovery trajectories in psychotic disorders
• neurobiological, cognitive and clinical effects of aerobic exercise
![Simon E. Fisher](/18372/original-1665145395.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM3Mn0%3D--6258215e52d190bec8c1303c41e8cef2dfe5949b)
Simon E. Fisher
Research interests: • identification of genes involved in speech, language and reading • functional analyses of language-related genes in cellular and animal models • brain imaging genomics • genetics of synaesthesia
![Angela D. Friederici (not available for supervision)](/18374/original-1665145395.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM3NH0%3D--81e8cdbfbea9bc37c974cb0f100db358b3f22f2e)
Angela D. Friederici (not available for supervision)
Research interessts: • neurocognition of language processing and language acquisition • second language learning
• modulation of language networks
• structural brain basis of language
![Pascal Fries](/18376/original-1707837605.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM3Nn0%3D--2006be773ac2bf2f954d8c9ec27fe9c3ab50428a)
Pascal Fries
Research interests: • rhythmic neuronal synchronization and its cognitive functions
• selective attention; stimulus-repetition based learning • in-vivo electrophysiology and optogenetics in awake primates
• large-scale high-density electrophysiology with polyimide-based flexible probes
• magnetoencephalography (MEG) and psychophysics in human subjecsts
![Onur Güntürkün](/3286/original-1613038406.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjozMjg2fQ%3D%3D--e3139eb0a2c0d0e6975246dea2191ab89f4ba63a)
Onur Güntürkün
Forschungsinteressen: • functional and structural foundations of brain asymmetries • executive functions in humans and other animals • evolution and organization of the vertebrate brain, incl. that of humans • fMRI of complex cognition in birds
![Philipp Gunz](/18378/original-1556893390.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM3OH0%3D--74726b9a51e79e4e584fafc08f9c586bf29afc67)
Philipp Gunz
Research interests: • evolution and development of the brain • study of fossil hominins, extant humans and non-human primates • micro-computed tomography, MRI, statistical shape analysis based on landmarks (geometric morphometrics)
![Patrick Haggard](/18386/original-1607332565.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM4Nn0%3D--4013d246de6b7f684c3f6f6ba3a3bee05c27ea64)
Patrick Haggard
Research interests: • cognitive and neural mechanisms of human voluntary action • sense of agency and response-outcome learning • neurophysiological mechanisms of conscious experience • somatosensory perception • sensorimotor basis of self-awareness
![Peter Hagoort (only available for co-supervision)](/18390/original-1695207611.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM5MH0%3D--49b197485525c04061e23a0c60d9223e12b0a197)
Peter Hagoort (only available for co-supervision)
Research interests: • neurobiology of language • neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG, EEG, TMS) • computational modeling
• memory/unification • virtual reality
![Gesa Hartwigsen](/125468/original-1688536631.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxMjU0Njh9--cc7ad2a1633fda1e400f07786c21624bc6c99ffa)
Gesa Hartwigsen
Faculty Member from October 2023Research interests: • cognition • language • plasticity • neurostimulation, neuroimaging • network interactions
![Daniel B. M. Haun](/18315/original-1707316513.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMxNX0%3D--08d0064744ab4c7c491c52dfd936c28d1819aedc)
Daniel B. M. Haun
OmbudspersonsResearch interests: • human cognitive development • cross-cultural comparisons of human cognitive development • comparative great ape cognition
![John-Dylan Haynes](/18394/original-1560328030.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM5NH0%3D--7dbdb6dcc8f6384081426f0c4b9fe414fcbe9171)
John-Dylan Haynes
Research interests: • functional neuroimaging of visual and executive processes in humans • multivariate neuroimaging methods and brain reading
• intentions, volition and free will
• neurotechnology
![Hauke R. Heekeren (not available for supervision)](/18398/original-1689607328.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM5OH0%3D--e49ddbb201671f6f11c5b2b92848950fcaf75cfe)
Hauke R. Heekeren (not available for supervision)
Research interests: • decision neuroscience • cognitive and affective components in normal and disturbed social cognition • fMRI • NIRS • EEG • TMS
![Christine Heim](/18410/original-1560328028.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQxMH0%3D--ef67309a36afd70581707e548e5d484c488e96a5)
Christine Heim
Research interests: • developmental psychobiology • neurobiology of depression & anxiety disorders • psychoneuroendocrinology of functional somatic syndromes • neural correlates of stress and emotion • interactions of stress and dispositional factors across development • models of bounded rationality
![Ralph Hertwig (only available for co-supervision)](/18416/original-1694775698.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQxNn0%3D--7a684048b40146250979320dde1ce73e323f9fa8)
Ralph Hertwig (only available for co-supervision)
Reserch interests: • mechanisms of bounded rationality and in particular models of heuristics • mechanism of collective intelligence • mechanisms of learning, sampling and experienced-based decision making • boosting people’s decision making skills • how decision making and preferences change across the lifespan
![Jürgen Jost (only co-supervision of candidates)](/18420/original-1665487818.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQyMH0%3D--a7dc523bf630cc92532a38b476cde9ea20b31cdb)
Jürgen Jost (only co-supervision of candidates)
Research interests: • general theory of complex systems • cognition and neurosciences • theoretical and mathematical biology • geometry, analysis and theoretical physics • dynamical systems and network analysis • economics and social sciences • philosophy, history of science, visual arts
![Gerd Kempermann](/18422/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQyMn0%3D--db0c068f63d7cd5bce44fa6e66648a67313b3117)
Gerd Kempermann
Research interests: • adult hippocampal neurogenesis and its activity-dependent regulation • neurobiology of individuality
• testing of neurogenesis-related functions in humans
![Peter König](/18313/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMxM30%3D--cebbe59d791e17895c77ba48bae92e65c6108d72)
Peter König
Research interests: • embodied cognition and the neurophysiological basis of cognitive functions • multimodal integration and sensorimotor interactions
![Arthur Konnerth](/18406/original-1673440567.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQwNn0%3D--63742fd96ab83f9113dad678906d3b37712d3491)
Arthur Konnerth
Research interests: • behavior-related neuronal signaling in cortical circuits
• dendritic spine function and signal integration • neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease • high-resolution optical imaging in vitro and in vivo
![Ulman Lindenberger](/18408/original-1665145395.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQwOH0%3D--9d4768c65c08bc787710055ade73d16343057693)
Ulman Lindenberger
Research interests: • behavioral and neural plasticity across the lifespan • brain-behavior relations across the lifespan • lifespan developmental theory • multivariate developmental methodology • formal models of behavioral change
![Antje S. Meyer (not available for supervision)](/18328/original-1665145395.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMyOH0%3D--0ba60d6caafffa0dff1a5b6c862a1aafe18c6e03)
Antje S. Meyer (not available for supervision)
Research interests: • individual differences in language skills • using language in conversation • relationship between language production and comprehension • computational models of speaking and listening
![Klaus-Robert Müller](/18332/original-1701772800.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMzMn0%3D--16c0f2ee17c2e636d9bdde54f24ae9e9b17cc6d2)
Klaus-Robert Müller
Research interests: • statistical learning theory for neural networks, support vector machines and ensemble learning
techniques • deep learning • analysis of biomedical data: brain computer interfacing, genomic data analysis, computational chemistry and atomistic simulations
![Michael Pauen](/18334/original-1607332564.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMzNH0%3D--e86f811e588f46f69987f4a431f613c1e137e744)
Michael Pauen
Research interests: • philosophy of mind • consciousness, self-consciousness and free will • ethical consequences of neuroscientific research
![David Poeppel (not available for supervision)](/18338/original-1665145394.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMzOH0%3D--6731bfc3eda0064144e67b2ca14cec2ba1de54d6)
David Poeppel (not available for supervision)
Research interests: • brain basis of speech perception and language comprehension • auditory cognition and music • multisensory perception • the temporal structure of perceptual experience • cognitive neuroscience and its foundations
![Iyad Rahwan](/49872/original-1621946473.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo0OTg3Mn0%3D--9ae7c073581a2c608e528e81da057cfe9b53a057)
Iyad Rahwan
Research interests: • computational social science • social and economic impact of • artificial Intelligence • human psychology and intelligent machines • new techniques for measuring and enabling human cooperation • human–machine cooperation • artificial intelligence ethics and governance
![Brigitte Röder](/18342/original-1673440566.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM0Mn0%3D--395c94c38683ec606a1339462f49a5d7afa6732e)
Brigitte Röder
Research interests: • multisensory action control • neuroplasticity: functional and structural changes in the brain due to development, perceptual-cognitive training, physical exercising, traumatic events such as sensory
deprivation • age dependence of the brain’s capacity to reorganize • behavioral and electrophysiological measures • fMRI • TMS
![Caroline F. Rowland](/18344/original-1707316513.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM0NH0%3D--7ba3566f3c41bd96cd9e967c8ed6b30c0ed45a0d)
Caroline F. Rowland
OmbudspersonsResearch interests: • environmental effects on child language acquisition • individual and cross-linguistic variation in language acquisition • neuro-cognitive models of lexical and grammatical development • constraints and biases on the language acquisition mechanism • multi-ethodological approaches to child language acquisition
![Julia Sacher](/54154/original-1625459746.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo1NDE1NH0%3D--52773e82a1018c5a504f3ae44807157c519aa5b9)
Julia Sacher
Research interests: Forschungsinteressen: • how sex hormones shape the human brain and cognition • sex-specific risk for neurodegenerative disease across the lifespan • interaction of metabolic risk and sex hormones for individual brain ageing trajectories and memory • neuroendocrine and inflammatory processes as vulnerability models for stress-related disease • methods: neuroreceptor-ligand PET imaging, structural and functional MRI, interventional studies, psychopharmacological challenge/depletion paradigms
![Constance Scharff (only available for co-supervision)](/18307/original-1695811437.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMwN30%3D--a019954199f3477893660eb9a915c607d08928ab)
Constance Scharff (only available for co-supervision)
Research interests: • animal communication • vocal learning in songbirds including multimodal aspects • evolution of human speech and music • behavioral, neurobiological and molecular methods
![Klaus Scheffler](/18346/original-1556893352.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM0Nn0%3D--be650b0518a1ea023a4f29bd77098fa71bfc48fc)
Klaus Scheffler
Research interests: • functional and structural ultra-high field MRI methods development • ultra-high field human and animal functional and structural imaging • combined optical (optogenetics, Ca, intrinsic optical) and MR acquisition
![Erich Schröger (only co-supervision of candidates)](/18348/original-1687857812.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM0OH0%3D--2b1b9b4e27f6473cd2a74f1fb33b39112a6bd63f)
Erich Schröger (only co-supervision of candidates)
Research interests: • human information processing underlying perception, attention, and action • behavioral electroencephalographic and eye-movement measures
![Fredrik Ullén](/125648/original-1699342910.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxMjU2NDh9--f3ee531ef3a0d0e134385fb2edd6782998604f0c)
Fredrik Ullén
Faculty Member from October 2023Research interests: • gene-environment interplay in musical engagement and expertise • the neural basis of skill learning and performance • neural mechanisms of creativity • neuropsychology of flow • cultural engagement, well-being and health
![Arno Villringer](/18608/original-1665145394.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODYwOH0%3D--badd7f9a8b3f5bb536705bbf653a9f5f6cbad90a)
Arno Villringer
Research interests: • vascular risk factors leading to stroke and functional recovery
• effect of brain lesions on brain architecture • brain plasticity after stroke • multimodal imaging
![Nikolaus Weiskopf](/18352/original-1556893344.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM1Mn0%3D--87f5513d50dc92b4b117a5fd63040429ce9ba05a)
Nikolaus Weiskopf
Research interests: • characterizing functional and anatomical microstructure of the human brain inc. in-vivo histology • developing methods for high-resolution anatomical and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) • biophysical modeling of MR contrast • MR image processing and analysis • validating MRI methods using advanced post-mortem histology (3D microscopy, PIXE)
![Thomas Wiegand](/18354/original-1673440566.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM1NH0%3D--6133edd3b8953ad6ebec4410fc2142c69f364600)
Thomas Wiegand
Research interests: • image and video coding • data compression •signal processing • image processing • communications
![Carsten T. Wotjak](/18356/original-1708357034.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM1Nn0%3D--ed58e838a286c09b54ee0bd63d1f9fc73888829e)
Carsten T. Wotjak
Research interests: • animal models of fear and anxiety disorders • biological basis of stress-related psychopathology • role of the endocannabinoid system in fear, anxiety and cognition • cognitive performance in mouse models of psychiatric / neurological disorders • cognitive enhancement / extinction and erasure of traumatic memories
Former Faculty Members
![Nicole Boivin](/18396/original-1556893417.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM5Nn0%3D--bbc986e8776d3071858dcf0445ea6fcb735d73d2)
Nicole Boivin
Research interests: • prehistory and human evolution • human dispersals and migrations
• cultural and biological adaptations of human populations • material culture and its role in human society, cognition and evolution
![Russell Gray](/18382/original-1556893392.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM4Mn0%3D--555fc7a07dfdda08b983449b72bb28c353b66f77)
Russell Gray
Research interests: • computational evolutionary methods • linguistic prehistory • animal cognition • philosophy of biology • evolution of human and animal behavior
![Hans-Jochen Heinze](/18412/original-1673440566.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQxMn0%3D--775e4f92996137946def49af45a3f017f44d6b89)
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Research interests: • visual attention • processing of rewards • behavioral neurology • memory • consciousness • fMRI
![Nikos Logothetis](/18424/original-1556893367.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODQyNH0%3D--311b2365f8b8d3cf33317a0bd5237535a4d3ccfe)
Nikos Logothetis
Research interests: • neural mechanisms of perception and object recognition • multimodal methodological approach • electrical stimulation and fMRI • neural event triggered fMRI for the study of inter-structure interactions
![Michael Petraglia](/18336/original-1556893360.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODMzNn0%3D--5ed232ad10a1037846e3676940d4f2eac0a561a5)
Michael Petraglia
Research interests: • human evolution • the evolution of hominin cognition and stone tool analysis • relations between climate change and human adaptations
![Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann](/18350/original-1556893346.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjoxODM1MH0%3D--0a96b3f2c1886f172baeff0a7b5f0741601e9df5)
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
Research interests: • aesthetics of music (historical, transcultural and empirical perspectives) • music and meaning •
understanding music • aesthetic experience in music