Associated research groups  

Associated research groups

Chair, Philosophy of Mind
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

  • Head: Professor Michael Pauen
  • Marc Borner, M.A. (doctoral student)
  • Dr. Katja Crone (postdoctoral researcher, Mind & Brain)
  • Ellen Fridland, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher, Mind & Brain)
  • Daniel Friedrich, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Kati Hennig (student research assistant, Mind & Brain)
  • Boris Kaloff (student research assistant, VW)
  • Daniel Kostic, M.A. (doctoral student)
  • Dr. Andrea Lailach-Hennrich (Vertretung Crone, Wintersemester 2010/11)
  • Kristina Musholt, M.A. M.Sc. (doctoral student, Mind & Brain)
  • Jan Prause-Stamm, M.A. (doctoral student, Mind & Brain)
  • Marisa Przyrembel, Dipl.-Psych. M.A. (doctoral student)
  • Jens Schönherr (student research assistant, VW / Mind & Brain)
  • Priv.-Doz. Dr. Alexander Staudacher (Vertretung Pauen, Wintersemester 2010/11)
  • Dr. Anna Strasser (CILS project management; postdoctoral researcher)
  • Professor David Widerker, Bar-Ilan (visiting scholar)

The Social Brain (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Project 1.
Funded by Volkswagen-Stiftung.

  • Head: Professor Michael Pauen
  • Marisa Przyrembel, Dipl.-Psych. M.A. (doctoral student)
  • Jens Schönherr (student research assistant)

Research Group Cognitive Neuroscience
(Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

  • Head: Professor Niko Busch
  • Isabelle Bareither, M.Sc. (doctoral student)
  • N.N. (postdoctoral researcher, Mind & Brain)
  • Lyudmyla Kovalenko (student research assistant, Mind & Brain)

Mind-Brain Institute
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

  • Head: Professor Arno Villringer
  • Professor Bogdan Draganski (fellow)
  • Professor Hauke Heekeren (fellow)
  • Dr. Stefan Kiebel (fellow)
  • Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein (fellow)
  • Dr. Daniel Margulies (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Hadas Okon-Singer, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Priv.-Doz. Dr. Burkhard Pleger (fellow)
  • Priv.-Doz. Dr. Petra Ritter (fellow)

The Young and the Restless
(Mind-Brain Institute and The Neuro Bureau)

  • Group leader: Dr. Daniel Margulies (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Isabelle Bareither, M.Sc. (doctoral student)
  • Shereen Chaudhry, B.Sc. M.H.A. (doctoral student)
  • Christiane Rohr, M.A. (doctoral student)
  • Sebastian Urchs, B.Sc. (visiting student, LMU München)

German Research Foundation (DFG): Research Grants for Principal Investigators

  • Dr. Malte Dahlgrün (“Philosophy of evolutionary psychology”)
  • Priv.-Doz. Dr. Bettina Walde (“Analyse phänomenaler Begriffe”, from April 2011)

Constructions of the Brain: The emergence of the neurological adolescent
(Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)  

  • Head: Professor Suparna Choudhury (Minerva research group leader)
  • Lukas Ebensperger (student research assistant)
  • Dr. Felix Hasler, Zurich (visiting scholar)
  • Moritz Merten (student research assistant)

Center for Integrative Life Sciences (CILS)
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

  • Heads: Professors Peter Hammerstein, Michael Pauen (spokesperson), Arno Villringer
  • Glenn Carruthers, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher, Pauen’s group)
  • Daniel Friedrich, Ph.D. (CILS management; postdoctoral researcher)
  • Dr. Stefan Gutwinski (postdoctoral researcher, Heinz’s group)
  • Romy Jaster (student research assistant)
  • Anna Kuhlen, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher, Haynes’s group)
  • Dar Meshi, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher, Heekeren’s group)
  • Julius Schönherr (student research assistant)
  • Rosa Steimke (doctoral student, Walter’s group)
  • Dr. Anna Strasser (head, CILS management; postdoctoral researcher)
  • Laura Viefhues (student research assistant)
  • Dr. Bernhard Völkl (postdoctoral researcher, Hammerstein’s group)

Autonomy (CILS project)
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Module Philosophy.
Funded by Volkswagen-Stiftung.

  • Head: Professor Michael Pauen
  • Daniel Friedrich, Ph.D. (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Boris Kaloff (student research assistant)
  • Jan Prause-Stamm, M.A. (doctoral student, Mind & Brain)

Division of Mind and Brain Research
(Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

  • Head: Professor Henrik Walter
  • Vera Ludwig, M.Sc. (doctoral student, Mind & Brain)
  • Dr. Sabine Müller (postdoctoral researcher)
  • Rosa Steimke (doctoral student, CILS)
  • Dr. Christine Stelzel (postdoctoral researcher, Mind & Brain / HU)

Project Motion Bank: a context for moving ideas
(The Forsythe Company)

Supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, the Volkswagen Foundation and Susanne Klatten.

Project partners for interdisciplinary research: Berlin School of Mind and Brain - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt.