Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
neurovascular interface: molecular pathways, synaptic plasticity, development
People
Expertise in all fields of Neuroscience
Who we are
The approximately 170 neuroscience researchers with a total of well over 1000 group members are the heart of the network. The rich diversity of people with very different scientific backgrounds leads to manifold perspectives and different approaches to common research questions.
Prof. Dr. Georg Auburger
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases
Dr. Alison Barker
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
social behavior, vocal communication, naked mole-rats
Prof. Dr. Carlos Bas Orth
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
metabolic plasticity and mitochondrial function in neurons
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Baumann
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
cochlear implants, electric-acoustic auditory stimulation, pitch perception
Prof. Dr. Christian Behl
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
neurodegeneration, proteostasis, autophagy
Prof. Dr. Til Ole Bergmann
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
non-invasive neurostimulation, neuroimaging
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Berninger
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
molecular mechanisms of neural cell fate specification, plasticity
Prof. Dr. Frank Birklein
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
pain, neuropathies, autonomic nervous system
Prof. Dr. Stefan Bittner
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
neuroimmunology, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration, glial immunobiology
PD Dr. Andreas G. Chiocchetti
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
autism, conduct disorder, molecular genetics, human cell models
Dr. Hermann Cuntz
Computational Neuroscience
dendrite morphology, dendrite function, computational neuroanatomy
Prof. Dr. Loes van Dam
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
sensorimotor control; multisensory perception and action
Prof. Dr. Thomas Deller
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
homeostasis, structural plasticity of neurons
Dr. Sevil Duvarci
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
dopaminergic mechanisms underlying learning and memory
Prof. Dr. Stefan Eimer
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
parkinson’s disease, neuronal trafficking and homeostasis, mitophagy, EM
PD Dr. Kristina Endres
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
neurodegeneration, healthy aging, microbiome, enteric nervous system
Prof. Dr. Christine M. Freitag
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
autism, conduct disorder, ADHD; clinical trials
Dr. Florian Freudenberg
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
pathophysiology of mental disorders, molecular psychiatry
Prof. Dr. Kristina Friedland
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
understanding the pathophysiology of depression and neurodegnerative diseases
Prof. Dr. Pascal Fries
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
mechanisms and functions of rhythmic neuronal synchronization
PD Dr. Bernhard Gaese
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
auditory physiology and cognition; hearing research
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
molecular, cellular, circuit, behavioral neuroscience
PD Dr. Oliver Grimm
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
ADHD, schizophrenia, speech biomarkers, psychopharmacology, neuroimaging
Prof. Dr. Sergiu Groppa
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
translational neuroscience, neurodegeneration, autoimmunity, neurostimulation
Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Grus
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
proteomics, tear film, glaucoma, AMD, neurodegeneration
Dr. Martha Nari Havenith
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
naturalistic behaviour, neuronal coding, electrophysiology
Dr. Julio Hechavarria
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
vocal communication, neuroethology, bats, neural networks, oscillations
Prof. Dr. Martin Heine
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
dynamic organisation of signalling molecules in the neuronal membrane
Dr. Molly Henry
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
brain rhythms, brain–environment synchrony, auditory perception
Dr. Hiroshi Ito
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
spatial navigation, neural circuits for planning and decision making
Prof. Dr. Claire Jacob
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
regeneration, myelinating cells, epigenetics
Prof. Dr. Raffael Kalisch
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
resilience, stress, anxiety, emotion regulation
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaschube
Computational Neuroscience
function and development of cortical circuits, neural data analysis
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kelsch
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
reinforcement learning, social learning, complex system analyses
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kieslich
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
epilepsy, neurotrauma, neurometabolic/neurodegenerative diseases
Dr. Werner Kilb
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
development, GABA, Cl- homeostasis, computational modeling
Prof. Dr. Jochen Klein
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
alzheimer´s disease, dementia, epilepsy, stroke, acetylcholine, lactate
Prof. Dr. Donat Kögel
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
brain tumors, autophagy, apoptosis, tumor invasion, cancer stem cells
Prof. Dr. Manfred Kössl
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
auditory system, otoacustic emissions, cortical neurophysiology, cognition
Dr. Eva Maria Krämer-Albers
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
extracellular vesicles, neuron-glia interaction
Prof. Dr. Dilja Krueger-Burg
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
GABAergic synapses and circuits in psychiatric disorders
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kubiak
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
health behavior, emotion regulation, ecological momentary assessment
Prof. Dr. Bodo Laube
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
developmental disorders; ionizing radiation; tumor progression; BioSensors
Prof. Dr. Gilles Laurent
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
dynamics sleep evolution perception camouflage neural codes
Prof. Dr. Virginie Lecaudey
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
developmental biology, live microscopy, cell migration, morphogenesis, zebrafish
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lieb
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
resilience mechanisms and interventions; effects of cognitive enhancements
PD Dr. Stefan Liebner
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
brain vasculature, blood-brain barrier, Wnt/beta-catenin signaling
Prof. Dr. Heiko Luhmann
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
neurophysiology, neurodevelopment, cerebral cortex
Prof. Dr. Christoph von der Malsburg
Computational Neuroscience
cognitive architecture, visual perception
Prof. Dr. Eric Maronde
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
cellular signal transduction, biological timing (diurnal, circadian, seasonal)
Prof. Dr. Axel Methner
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
mitochondria, neurodegenerative diseases, calcium
Prof. Dr. Thomas Mittmann
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
adaption of neocortical networks after brain injury, GABA, Synaptic transmission
Prof. Dr. Bernd Moosmann
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
redox biochemistry, excitatory neurotransmission
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner E.G. Müller
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
neuronal apoptosis and its prevention
Prof. Dr. Marianne B. Müller
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
stress, depression, animal models, behavior, translational neuroscience
Prof. Dr.-Ing Muthuraman Muthuraman
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
multimodal image, signal processing and machine learning
Dr. Kerstin Nagel-Wolfrum
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
hereditary diseases, gene-based therapies
PD Dr. Pascal Nicklas
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics
apl. Prof. Dr. Viola Oertel
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
genetic neuroimaging, cognitions, psychotherapy research
Apl. Prof. Dr. Leo Peichl
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
comparative retina research, photoreceptors
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Plate
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
brain tumor biology, therapy and therapy resistance
Prof. Dr. Michael Plichta
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
reward processing; resilience; ADHD; reliability; EEG
Prof. Dr. David Poeppel
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
cognitive neuroscience; hearing, speech, language
Prof. Dr. Dr. Abdelhaq Rami
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
cerebral ischemia, neurodegeneration, neuroprotection
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Repple
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
neuroimaging, connectomics, psychiatry
Prof. Dr. Hermann Rohrer
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
sympathoadenal development and neuroblastoma
Prof. Dr. Felix Rosenow
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
clinical, experimental and translational neuroscience and epilepsy research
Prof. Dr. Constantin Rothkopf
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
computational cognitive science, perception & action, naturalistic tasks
Prof. Dr. Simon Rumpel
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
systemic neurophysiology, auditory cortex, learning and memory, perception
Prof. Dr. Michael Schäfer
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
brain injury, neuroinflammation, neuroprotection
Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Schmeisser
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
glutamatergic synapses, autism spectrum disorder, rare CNS disease
Prof. Dr. Achim Schmidtko
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
pain, itch, dorsal root ganglia, spinal cord
Dr. Christopher Schnaitmann
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
colour vision, neural circuits, behaviour, calcium imaging
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulte
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
stem cell biology, transcription, chromatin, adult neurogenesis, brain tumors
PD Dr. Stephan Schwarzacher
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
adult Neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, dendritic and synaptic plasticity
Prof. Dr. Susann Schweiger
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
neuro developmental disorder, huntington disease, gender research
Prof. Dr. Andre Seyfarth
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
biomechanics, neural control, learning, locomotion
Dr. Torfi Sigurdsson
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
neural circuits of behavior, sensory processing
Prof. Dr. Dr. Perikles Simon
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
physical activity and its mediators of resiliance
Prof. Dr. Wolf Singer
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
cerebral cortex, recurrent networks, neuronal dynamics, cognition
Prof. Dr. David Slattery
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
neuropeptides, stress, depression, anxiety, postpartum psychiatric disorders
Prof. Dr. Clemens Sommer
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
cerebral ischemia/muscular diseases/inflammation
Prof. Dr. Roland Stauber
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
hearing research, otoprotection, sleeping disorders, biomarkers
Prof. Dr. Joachim Steinbach
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
signaling, hypoxia and metabolism of brain tumors, immunotherapy
Prof. Dr. Roland Strauß
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
learning and memory, motivation and depression, attention in drosophila
Prof. Dr. Maik Stüttgen
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
psychophysics, decision making, learning, prefrontal cortex
Prof. Dr. Irmgard Tegeder
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
sensory neuropathy, pain, aging, neurodegenerative diseases
Prof. Dr. Jochen Triesch
Computational Neuroscience
computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence
Prof. Dr. Oliver Tüscher
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
mechanisms of resilient ageing / cognitive mechanisms of resilience
PD Dr. Joachim Urban
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
drosophila neural stem cells, development, gene regulation, epigenetics
Dr. Christina Francisca Vogelaar
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
CNS regeneration, neuroinflammation
Prof. Dr. Ari Waisman
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
glia cells, neuroinflammation, multiple sclerosis
PD Dr. Jennifer Winter
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
neurodevelopment, stress resilience, microRNAs, epigenetics
Prof. Dr. Uwe Wolfrum
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
sensory neurobiology, sensoneural degeneration, retinal degeneration, Usher synd
Prof. Dr. Karen Zentgraf
Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
motor control, motor imagery, human performance in sports
Prof. Dr. Frauke Zipp
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
multiple sclerosis, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, neuroimmunology