Director

Name
Phone
Professor Dr. Arno Villringer
Director
  • +49 341 9940-2220

Research group leader

Name
Phone
Dr. Vadim Nikulin
Research group leader
  • +49 341 9940-2207

Group leaders

Name
Phone
Professor Dr. Thomas Fritz
Group leader
  • +49 341 9940-2413
Dr. Michael Gaebler
Group leader
  • +49 341 9940-2309
Professor Dr. Annette Horstmann
Group leader (in cooperation with University of Helsinki)
Professor Dr. Hellmuth Obrig
Group leader (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9724-980
Professor Dr. Patrick Ragert, PhD
Group leader (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9731704
Professor Dr. Julia Sacher
Group leader (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9940-2409
Professor Dr. Dr. Matthias Schroeter, M.A.
Group leader (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9724962
PD Dr. med. Bernhard Sehm
Group leader
  • +49 341 9940-116
PD Dr. Veronica Witte
Group leader (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9940-2426

Scientific researchers and Postdocs

Name
Phone
Dr. Nazife Ayyildiz
Scientific researcher
  • +49 341 9940 - 2219
Dr. Frauke Beyer
Scientific researcher (in cooperation with University of Bordeaux)
  • +49 341 9940-2412
Dr. Ekaterina Chekha
Postdoc (Stipend-holder "Pontius Foundation")
  • +49 341 9940-2220
Dr. Cheng Chen
Postdoc (in cooperation with Taiyuan University of Technology)
Michael Dannhauer
Scientific researcher
Dr. Samyogita Hardikar
E-learning officer, Postdoc
  • +49 341 9940-2412
Dr. Lieneke Janssen
Postdoc (in cooperation with University of Magdeburg)
  • +49 341 9940 2600
Daria Jensen
Postdoc (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Dr. rer. med. Marie-Theres Meemken
Postdoc
  • +49 341 9940-2412
Dr. Maryna Polyakova
Research staff (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9940-2206
Dr. Kerstin Rohde-Zimmermann
Research staff (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Dr. Qiong Wu
Postdoc
  • +49 341 9940-2219
Akbal Zeynep
Postdoc

Doctoral researchers

Name
Phone
Nastya Asamolova
Doctoral researcher (Stipend-holder "Guest Programme"))
Julia Belger, M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher
  • +49 341 97-24997
Charlotte Beylier
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Xiuhui Chen
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Charité – University Medicine Berlin)
Yonghao Chen
Doctoral researcher
  • +493419940-2420
Lioba Enk
Doctoral researcher
  • +49 (0)341 9940-2410
Aimee Arely Flores-Sandoval, M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Einstein Center for Neuroscience Berlin & Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience)
Carina Forster
Doctoral researcher
Antonin Fourcade
Doctoral researcher
Marta Gerosa
Doctoral researcher (Stipend-holder "DAAD Research Scholarship")
Moritz Gerster, M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher
Magdalena Gippert, M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher
Khosrov Grigoryan, M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher
  • +49 341 9940-2420
Hendrik Hartmann
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9940-2407
Nadine Herzog
Doctoral researcher
Simon M. Hofmann, M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher
  • +49 341 9940-2243
Anna-Thekla Jäger (geb. Schmidt), M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher (external)
Dimitra-Maria Kandia, M.Sc.
Doctoral researcher (external)
Nikolai Kapralov
Doctoral researcher
Felix Klotzsche
Doctoral researcher
Yee Teng Lee
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Carolin Lewis
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with University of Tübingen)
Anastassia Loukianov
Doctoral researcher
Francesca Malandrona
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with University of Turin)
Evelyn Medawar, Dual M.Sc., PhD cand.
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Berlin School of Mind and Brain)
Max Archibald Montgomery
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with University of Ghent)
Eleni Panagoulas
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Berlin School of Mind and Brain), Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Charité – University Medicine Berlin)
Daniéle Pino
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Anna Prunell i Castane
Doctoral researcher (Stipend-holder "Scholarship Spanish Ministry of Sciene")
Paul Steinfath
Doctoral researcher
Tilman Stephani
Doctoral researcher
  • +49 341 9940-2243
Alina Studenova
Doctoral researcher (Stipend-holder "Guest Programme")
Ronja Thieleking
Doctoral researcher
  • +49 341 9940 2407
Meghedi Vartanian
Doctoral researcher, PhD representative (internal)
  • +49 341 9940 2407
Maria Waltmann
Doctoral researcher (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Juanli Zhang
Doctoral researcher

MD Students

Name
Phone
Nora Breuer
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Konrad Jakob Endres
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Dipl.-Psych. Maria Felber
MD student (in cooperation with German Navy)
Annegret Glathe
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Jana Grothe
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Laurenz Lammer
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Mathis Lammert
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Diaa Masri
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
Larissa Pauli
MD student (in cooperation with Leipzig University)

Personal assistants and scientific assistants

Name
Phone
Dr. Anahit Babayan
Scientific assistant, Equal opportunities officer
  • +49 341 9940-2496
Cornelia Ketscher
Personal assistant
  • +49 341 9940-2219
Birgit Mittag
Personal assistant
  • +49 341 9940-2220
PhD Sandra Zurborg
Science Manager to the Chair of the Human Sciences Section
  • +49 341 9940-2258

Technical and administrative assistants

Name
Phone
Anne-Kathrin Franz
Clinical research assistant
  • +49 341 9940-2209
Silke Friedrich
Project co-ordinator (in cooperation with Leipzig University)
  • +49 341 9940-2417
Bettina Johst
Programmer
  • +49 341 9940-163
Ramona Menger
Psychological-technical assistant
  • +49 341 9940-2214
Sylvia Stasch
Medical-technical assistant
  • +49 341 9940-144
Annett Wiedemann
Medical-technical assistant
  • +49 341 9724-546

Guest researchers

Name
Phone
Maria Poessel
Guest researcher
  • +49 341 9940-2431

External guest researchers

Name
Phone
Dr. Pierre-Louis Bazin
External guest researcher
  • +49 341 9940-2445
Dr. Martin Grund
External guest researcher
  • +49 341 9940-2256
Dr. Christopher Gundlach
External guest researcher
  • +49 341 9739544
Dr. Elisabeth Kaminski
External guest researcher
  • +49 341 9940-2219
Dr. Rouven Kenville
External guest researcher

Research associates

Name
Phone
Professor Dr. Claudia Männel
Research associate
  • +49 30 450 555 402
Professor Dr. Andreas Melzer
Research associate
  • +49 34197-12101
Professor Dr. Michael Pauen
Research associate
  • +49 341 9940-2220
Christopher J. Steele, PhD
Research associate
  • +1514 848 2424 2487
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