Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Research institute in Leipzig, Germany
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The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences is located in Leipzig, Germany.[1] The institute was founded in 2004 by a merger between the former Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich.[2] It is one of 86 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft).[3][4]
Departments
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- Neuropsychology - Director: Professor Angela D. Friederici
- Neurology - Director: Professor Arno Villringer
- Neurophysics - Director: Professor Nikolaus Weiskopf
- Psychology - Director: Professor Yusuf mert kahraman
Former Departments
- Social Neuroscience - Director: Professor Tania Singer
- Neurophysics - Director: Professor Robert Turner
- Psychology - Director: Professor Wolfgang Prinz
- Cognitive Neurology - Director: Professor D. Yves von Cramon
References
External links
- Homepage of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
51°20′05″N 12°23′19″E / 51.334741°N 12.388694°E / 51.334741; 12.388694
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Max Planck Society
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research schools
- Otto Hahn (1948–1960)
- Adolf Butenandt (1960–1972)
- Reimar Lüst (1972–1984)
- Heinz Staab (1984–1990)
- Hans F. Zacher (1990–1996)
- Hubert Markl (1996–2002)
- Peter Gruss (2002–2014)
- Martin Stratmann (2014–2023)
- Patrick Cramer (since 2023)
- Walther Bothe (1954)
- Karl Ziegler (1963)
- Feodor Lynen (1964)
- Manfred Eigen (1967)
- Konrad Lorenz (1973)
- Georges J. F. Köhler (1984)
- Klaus von Klitzing (1985)
- Ernst Ruska (1986)
- Johann Deisenhofer (1988)
- Robert Huber (1988)
- Hartmut Michel (1988)
- Bert Sakmann (1991)
- Erwin Neher (1991)
- Paul J. Crutzen (1995)
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1995)
- Theodor W. Hänsch (2005)
- Gerhard Ertl (2007)
- Stefan W. Hell (2014)
- Emmanuelle Charpentier (2020)
- Reinhard Genzel (2020)
- Benjamin List (2021)
- Klaus Hasselmann (2021)
- Svante Pääbo (2022)
- Ferenc Krausz (2023)
- Kaiser Wilhelm Society
- Max Planck Digital Library
- Harnack Medal
- Schloss Ringberg
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