Achievements

Established in 2006, the Berlin School of Mind and Brain ...

• has positioned itself as an important center of cooperation between human, social and neurosciences, with great national and international impact,
• is – with its specific focus on mind and brain research – unique in the German scientific landscape,
• has supported, educated and trained a large number of successful doctoral candidates in the three-year structured doctoral program (since 2007) and the Master’s program “Mind and Brain” (since 2013),
• is proud to have 25 former doctoral candidates in university professorships or in group leader positions at German and international universities, and many more alumni in high-profile postdoctoral positions worldwide,
• is a founding member of the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin (ECN), established in 2016,
• has enjoyed the support of an excellent group of faculty members. They are responsible for doctoral supervision, research and teaching and represent the areas of consciousness, decision-making, language, learning, social thinking and neuro-psychiatric diseases,
• is central to the close networking of university research (Humboldt-Universität, Freie Universität and Technische Universität Berlin as well as the universities of Potsdam, Magdeburg, Leipzig), clinical research (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and non-university research (Max Planck Institutes in Berlin and Leipzig; Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch) in the Berlin metropolitan area,
• was awarded in 2017 the first prize (summa cum laude) as “Einstein Doctoral Program” by the Einstein Foundation Berlin, in a competition of the best Berlin doctoral programs. With the Einstein Doctoral Program Award, the Einstein Foundation Berlin honors outstandingly successful structured doctoral programs at Berlin universities and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
• has been supporting the DFG Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence of Technische Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the establishment of a graduate school for the interdisciplinary training of doctoral candidates in the cluster (2018–2025),
• was given the responsibility to establish the DFG Research Training Group 2386 “Extrospection. External Access to Higher Cognitive Processes” (2018–2024),
• is one of the hosting institutions for fast-track students and doctoral candidates of the national Max Planck School of Cognition since 2018; renewed for 2026–2032,
• is currently (2026) revising the doctoral program and not accepting candidates; details of the new admission process will be announced here as soon as they become available.