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Structured Postdoctoral Program of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain
The postdoctoral programm of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain brings together scientists from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities for basic and applied research.
Research Groups of our Faculty members
- Vision & Motor System Group (Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Brandt - Cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology)
- Research Group (Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht - Neurophysiology)
- Visual cognition lab (Prof. Dr. Niko Busch - Visual cognition, timing and temporal perception, electrophysiology)
- Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (Prof. Dr. Gabriel Curio - Psychophysiology, brain-computer interface, neurology)
- AG Allgemeine Psychologie (Prof. Dr. Peter A. Frensch - Cognitive psychology)
- Hayneslab (Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes - Human cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, conscious and unconscious processing in perception and action)
- Abteilung Verhaltensneurologie (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Heinze - Cognitive control of memory functions; functional, structural and genetic imaging)
- Max Planck Research Group "Neural mechanisms of human communication" (Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein - Cognitive neuroscience, neural mechanisms of human communication)
- Neurobiology and the Behavior of the Honeybee (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Randolf Menzel - Associative learning, memory consolidation, neural correlates of associative plasticity at the network level)
- Wissenschaftstheorie der Naturwissenschaften und Naturphilosophie (Prof. Dr. Olaf Müller - Philosophy of language, philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics)
- Neural Information Processing Group (Prof. Dr. Klaus Obermayer - Computational neuroscience, machine learning, analysis of neural data)
- Philosophy of Mind (Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen - Philosophy of mind)
- Transformations of Mind. Philosophical Psychology from 1500 to 1750. (Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler - Philosophy of mind, history of philosophical psychology)
- Research Group (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schubert - Psychology and cognitive neuroscience)
- Biologische Psychologie/ Psychophysiologie (Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer - Cognitive neuroscience)
PostDocs
Chaumon, Maximilien, Ph.D. (Visual cognition lab - Prof. Dr. Niko Busch)
Research Groups of our Faculty members
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht - Neurophysiology)
- Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (Prof. Dr. Gabriel Curio - Psychophysiology, brain-computer interface, neurology)
- AG Allgemeine Psychologie (Prof. Dr. Peter A. Frensch - Cognitive psychology)
- Adaptive behavior and cognition (Prof. Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer - Adaptive behavior and cognition)
- Evolution of Organismic Systems (Prof. Dr. Peter Hammerstein - Theoretical and evolutionary biology, game theory, decision processes)
- Hayneslab (Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes - Human cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, conscious and unconscious processing in perception and action)
- Affective Neuroscience & Psychology of Emotion (Prof. Dr. Hauke R. Heekeren - Neurocognition of decision making, (clinical) cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging)
- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinz - Monoaminergic dysfunction in psychiatric disorders)
- Research Group (Prof. Dr. Hans-Ludwig Kröber - Criminality and mental disorder)
- Klinische Neurobiologie (Prof. Dr. Golo Kronenberg - Affective disorders, regulation of cellular plasticity, neuronal stem cells)
- Movements disorders (Prof. Dr. Andrea Kühn - Movement disorders, deep brain stimulation, invasive recording from human basal ganglia, neurophysiology of motor system)
- Machine Learning/Intelligent Data Analysis (Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller - Statistical learning theory for neural networks, support vector machines and ensemble learning techniques)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen - Philosophy of mind)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt - Practical philosophy, ethics)
- Adaptive behavior and cognition (Lael Schooler, Ph.D. - Adaptive behavior and cognition)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Torsten Schubert - Psychology and cognitive neuroscience)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Schwintowski - Neurobiology of law and ethical decision-making)
- Biologische Psychologie und Psychophysiologie (Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer - Cognitive neuroscience)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Ralf Stoecker - Applied ethics, philosophy of action)
- Cognitive psychology (Prof. Dr. Elke van der Meer - Cognitive psychology)
- Forschungsbereich Mind and Brain (Prof. Dr. Dr. Henrik Walter - Volition and decision making, affective neuroscience and social cognition, depression and schizophrenia, imaging genetics, free will and moral responsibility)
Further Working Groups & PostDocs
DECISION MAKING IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS
Heads: Professors Peter Hammerstein, Michael Pauen (spokesperson), Arno Villringer
- Communicating Brains and Cultures (Kuhlen)
- Quantifying Willpower (Steimke)
- Social Decision Making II (Meshi)
- Game Theory (Völkl)
- Neurobiology of Aggression (Gutwinski)
- Modelling Motivation for Cognitive AI (Bach)
- Neural Isomorphism and Heteromorphism in Intersubjectivity (Thirioux)
THE EINSTEIN VISITING FELLOW'S GROUP (Funded by Einstein Foundation Berlin)
Head: Professor Ray Dolan (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London)
- Dr. Dominik Bach (postdoctoral researcher)
- Lyudmyla Kovalenko, M.Sc. (student research assistant)
- Dr. Florian Ostendorf (postdoctoral researcher)
- Arezoo Pooresmaeili, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher)
- Dr. Ulf Toelch (postdoctoral researcher)
- EINSTEIN CLUB The Einstein group would like to invite members of the M&B community -- PhD students, postdocs, and faculty -- to join us for the Einstein Club. The Einstein Club is an informal meeting of the Einstein Foundation-funded Ray Dolan group at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Meeting take place on irregular dates (often on Wednesdays) at 17:30 - Room 217 (first floor), HGS, Luisenstrasse 56, 10117 Berlin
Research Groups of our Faculty members
- Kognition, Altern und Neurorehabilitation (Prof. Dr. Agnes Flöel - Aphasia rehabilitation, aging, cognitive impairment, lifestyle interventions)
- Abteilung Neuropsychologie, MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften (Prof. Dr. Angela D. Friederici - Neural basis of language, brain basis of language development)
- Molecular and Cellular Evolution (Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Herzel - Theoretical and systems biology, nonlinear dynamics; animal vocalization, signal transduction)
- General and Neurocognitive Psychology (Prof. Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs - Neurocognitive psychology)
Cognitive Psychology (Prof. Ph.D. Reinhold Kliegl - Cognitive psychology ) - Motor and Cognition Group (Priv.-Doz. Ph.D. Fabian Klostermann - Neurology, Parkinson’s disease)
- Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe "Neuronale Mechanismen zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation" (Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein - Cognitive neuroscience, neural mechanisms of human communication)
- General Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Manfred Krifka - Language, Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax, Linguistics)
- Wissenschaftstheorie der Naturwissenschaften und Naturphilosophie (Prof. Dr. Olaf Müller - Philosophy of language, philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics)
- Abteilung Neurologie, MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften (Priv.-Doz. Dr. Hellmuth Obrig - Non-invasive optical imaging, Neuroscience, Neurology)
- Biologische Psychologie/ Psychophysiologie (Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer - Cognitive neuroscience)
- Psychologuistik (Prof. Dr. Katharina Spalek - Language production, mental lexicon)
- Cognitive psychology (Prof. Dr. Elke van der Meer - Cognitive psychology)
- Neurocogition of Language (Prof. Dr. Isabell Wartenburger - Neurologie, Neural basis of language processing and language development)
Research Groups of our Faculty members
- Research Group (Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht - Neurophysiology)
- Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (Prof. Dr. Gabriel Curio - Psychophysiology, brain-computer interface, neurology)
- Interdisciplinary Stroke research (Prof. Dr. Matthias Endres - Stroke research)
- Kognition, Altern und Neurorehabilitation (Prof. Dr. Agnes Flöel - Aphasia rehabilitation, aging, cognitive impairment, lifestyle interventions)
- Evolution of Organismic Systems (Prof. Dr. Peter Hammerstein - Theoretical and evolutionary biology, game theory, decision processes)
- Hayneslab (Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes - Human cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, conscious and unconscious processing in perception and action)
- Arbeitsbereich Emotionspsychologie und affektive Neurowissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Hauke R. Heekeren - Neurocognition of decision making, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, clinical cognitive neuroscience)
- Physiology and Pathophysiology of the hippocampal formation (Prof. Dr. Uwe Heinemann - Experimental neurophysiology)
- Verhaltensneurologie (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Heinze - Cognitive control of memory functions; functional, structural, and genetic imaging)
- General and Neurocognitive Psychology (Prof. Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs - Neurocognitive psychology)
- Klinische Neurobiologie (Prof. Dr. Golo Kronenberg - Affective disorders, regulation of cellular plasticity, neuronal stem cells)
- Center for Lifespan Psychology (LIP), MPI for Human Development (Prof. Dr. Shu-Chen Li - Lifespan cognitive/neurocognitive development, computational modeling)
- Cognitive and Neuronal Dynamics of Memory Across the Lifespan, MPI for Human Development (Prof. Dr. Ulman Lindenberger - Lifespan cognitive/neurocognitive development)
- Neurobiology and the Behavior of the Honeybee (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Randolf Menzel - Associative learning, memory consolidation, neural correlates of associative plasticity at the network level)
- Neural Information Processing Group (Prof. Dr. Klaus Obermayer - Computational neuroscience, machine learning, analysis of neural data)
- Abteilung Neurologie, MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften (Priv.-Doz. Dr. Hellmuth Obrig - Non-invasive optical imaging, Neuroscience, Neurology)
- Schmitzlab (Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schmitz - Cellular and molecular neurobiology)
- Social Neuroscience (Prof. Dr. Tania Singer - Social neuroscience: emotions, decision-making, development; social brain: plasticity, psychopathology)
- Neurology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer - Brain imaging and cognitive neurology)
Research Groups of our Faculty members
- AG Affektive Störungen (Prof. Dr. Felix Bermpohl -Cognitive and affective neuroscience)
- Vision & Motor System Group (Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Brandt - Cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology)
- Contact (Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Deter - Essential hypertension, emotions, cognitive and affective coping)
- Department of Experimental Neurology (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl - Regulation of cerebral blood flow and metabolism, cerebral ischemia)
- Contact (Prof. Dr. Karl M. Einhäupl - Cerebrovascular disorders)
- Interdisciplinary Stroke research (Prof. Dr. Matthias Endres - Stroke research)
- Physiology and Pathophysiology of the hippocampal formation (Prof. Dr. Uwe Heinemann - Experimental neurophysiology)
- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie (Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinz - Monoaminergic dysfunction in psychiatric disorders)
- Abteilung Verhaltensneurologie (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jochen Heinze - Cognitive control of memory functions; functional, structural and genetic imaging)
- Contact (Prof. Ph.D. Isabella Heuser - Stress-related disorders, aging, dementia, psychopharmacology)
- Klinische Psychologie (Prof. Dr. Norbert Kathmann - Clinical psychology and neuropsychology)
- Contact (Prof. Dr. Helmut Kettenmann - Cellular neurosciences)
- Arbeitsgruppe Motorik und Kognition (Priv.-Doz. Ph.D. Fabian Klostermann - Neurology, Parkinson’s disease)
- Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe "Neuronale Mechanismen zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation" (Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein - Cognitive neuroscience, neural mechanisms of human communication)
- AG Bewegungsstörung (Prof. Dr. Andrea Kühn - Movement disorders, deep brain stimulation, invasive recording from human basal ganglia, neurophysiology of motor system)
- Abteilung Neurologie, MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften (Priv.-Doz. Dr. Hellmuth Obrig - Non-invasive optical imaging, Neuroscience, Neurology)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt - Practical philosophy, ethics)
- Schmitzlab (Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schmitz - Cellular and molecular neurobiology)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Torsten Schubert - Psychology and cognitive neuroscience)
- Social Neuroscience, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Prof. Dr. Tania Singer - Social neuroscience: emotions, decision-making, development; social brain: plasticity, psychopathology)
- Research group (Prof. Dr. Ralf Stoecker - Applied ethics, philosophy of action)
- AG Angsterkrankungen (Prof. Dr. Andreas Ströhle - Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience)
- Neurology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Prof. Dr. Arno Villringer - Brain imaging and cognitive neurology)
- Divison of Mind and Brain Research (Prof. Dr. Dr. Henrik Walter - Volition and decision making, affective neuroscience and social cognition, depression and schizophrenia, imaging genetics, free will and moral responsibility)
Further Working Groups
BRAINS WITH MINDS (an interdisciplinary workgroup)
- monthly meetings on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. (reading group & talks)
- You are invited to join us! For more information, please email cils.hu(at)gmail.com.
TOPIC 6: Human Sociality
Research Groups of our Faculty members
- Philosophy of Mind (Prof. Dr. Michael Pauen - Philosophy of mind)
- Social Neuroscience (Prof. Dr. Tania Singer - Social neuroscience: emotions, decision-making, development; social brain: plasticity, psychopathology)
- Divison of Mind and Brain Research (Prof. Dr. Dr. Henrik Walter - Volition and decision making, affective neuroscience and social cognition, depression and schizophrenia, imaging genetics, free will and moral responsibility)
Further Working Groups
JOURNAL CLUB: SOCIAL COGNITION
Our social cognition journal club will meet on a biweekly basis Tuesdays 10-11 AM, in room 123, Luisenstraße 56. For more information, please email anna.kuhlen(at)bccn-berlin.de.
