Excellent Conditions for Junior Neuroscientists

The Brain Dynamics Graduate School will be supported by the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine. Doctoral researchers at other faculties whose work overlaps with neuroscience can also participate together with their supervisors. The spokespersons are Professor Marc Schönwiesner (Faculty of Life Sciences) and Professor Jens Eilers (Faculty of Medicine). The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are also involved in the Graduate School.

“The Graduate School will pool the expertise of a large group of distinguished neuroscientists working at universities and non-university research institutions,” said Marc Schönwiesner. This expertise will flow into developing the skills of internationally competitive doctoral researchers and at the same time will bring Leipzig’s neuroscientists closer together.

With its scientific orientation, the Brain Dynamics Graduate School will conduct basic, applied and clinical research in neuroscience from the subcellular to the systemic and clinical level. In areas such as neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, computational neuroscience, and cognitive science, research will cover species from fruit flies to humans with the goal of understanding information processing in the brain and improving the treatment of brain-related disorders.

“The doctoral students in our Graduate Schools pursue their degrees under the best conditions in terms of resources, supervision, skills development and international networking,” said Professor Erich Schröger, Vice-Rector for Research and Early Career Academics.

• At a glance:
  With its focus on neuroscience, the new Brain Dynamics Graduate School will boost the University’s research profile area of the same name.
• It is supported by the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine and is affiliated to the Research Academy Leipzig.

• Other Graduate Schools at Leipzig University are “Building with Molecules and Nano-objects” (BuildMoNa) and “Global and Area Studies” (GSGAS).