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Research Groups

Biology & Medicine

MPI for Biology of Ageing

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MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Dr. Michael Hofreiter	Molecular Ecology (MPG)
Dr. Julia Ostner	Integrative Primate Socioecology (MPG)
Dr. Tricia Striano	Cultural Ontogeny (MPS)
Dr. Susan Perry	Cultural Phylogeny (MPS)
Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf	Comparative Population Linguistics (MPG)

MPI of Biochemistry

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Esben Lorentzen	Intraflagellar transport (IFT), cilia, structural studies of protein complexes using X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy (Lorentzen, Dept. Structural cell biology, DFG/Emmy Noether)
Dr. Kay Grünewald	Cell Biology of Virus Infection (Grünewald, Department of Structural Biology, DFG/Emmy Noether)
Dr. Alexander Buchberger	Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Proteolysis-mediating Protein Complexes (Buchberger, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, DFG/Emmy Noether)
Dr. Olaf Stemmann	Chromosome Segregation and Mitosis (Stemmann, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, DFG/Emmy Noether)
Dr. Frauke Melchior	Protein Modification and Nucleocytoplasmic Transport (Melchior, BMBF)
Dr. Eva Wolf	Circadian rhythms, Structural biochemistry (Wolf, Dept. Structural cell biology, DFG)
Dr. Francis Barr	Intracellular Protein Transport (Barr, MPI)
Dr. Heiko Hermeking	Molecular Oncology (Hermeking, MPG)
Dr. Stefan Grimm	Programmed Cell Death (Grimm, MPG/Xantos)
Dr. Ludger Hengst	Regulation of Cell Proliferation (Hengst, MPG/Roche)
Dr. Tobias Walther	Organelle Dynamics and Architecture (Walther, MPG)
Dr. Nediljko Budisa	Molecular Biotechnology (Budisa, BMBF)
Value Not Set	Leukocyte Migration (Sixt, Department of Molecular Medicine, P.H. Hofschneider Professorship)
Dr. Thomas Wollert	Molecular membrane and organelle Biology (Wollert, MPG)
Dr. Roland Wedlich-Söldner	Cellular Dynamics and Cell Patterning (Wedlich-Söldner, MPG)
Dr. Cord Brakebusch	Regulation of Cytoskeletal Organisation (Brakebusch, Department of Molecular Medicine, Heisenberg)
Dr. Tad Holak	Nano-Photonics (Hillenbrand, Department of Molecular Structural Biology)
Dr. Friedrich Förster	Integrative Structure Determination of Membrane-Associated Protein Complexes (Förster, Dept. Molecular structure biology, HFSP)
Dr. Marc Schmidt-Supprian	Molecular Immunology and Signal Transduction (Schmidt-Supprian, Department of Molecular Medicine, DFG/Emmy Noether)
Dr. Frank Schnorrer	Muscle Dynamics (Schnorrer, MPG)
Dr. Gunter Meister	RNA Biology (Meister, MPI)
Dr. Zuzana Storchova	Maintenance of Genome Stability (Storchova, MPG)
Dr. Zoya Ignatova	Protein (mis)folding and disease (Ignatova, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, DFG/Heisenberg)

MPI for Biogeochemistry

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MPI for Bioinorganic Chemistry

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MPI for Molecular Biomedicine

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MPI for Biophysical Chemistry

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Dr. Stephan Sigrist	Neuroplasticity
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marjan Rupnik	Neuroendocrinology
Dr. Erez Raz	Germ Cell Development
PD Dr. Marina Bennati	Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Dr. Wolfgang Fischle	Chromatin Biochemistry
Prof. Petra Schwille	Experimental Biophysics
Dr. Thomas Tuschl	Kombinatorische Biochemie
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Rosenmund	Molecular Mechanisms of Central Synapse Function
Prof. Peter Vöhringer	Biomolecular and chemical dynamic
Dr. Claudia Höbartner	Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Thomas Heimburg	Biophysic and thermodynamic of membranes
Dr. Henrik Bringmann	Sleep and Waking
Dr. Takeshi Sakaba	Biophysics of Synaptic Transmission
Dr. (Univ. Kiew) Halyna Shcherbata	Gene expression and signaling
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ralf Schneggenburger	Synaptic dynamics and modulation
Dr. Thomas Burg	Biological Micro- and Nanotechnology

MPI of Biophysics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. José Faraldo-Gómez	Theoretical Molecular Biophysics
Dr. Lucy Forrest	Computational Structural Biology
Dr. Volkhard Helms	Theoretical Biophysics (Helms)

MPI for Brain Research

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Jörg Geiger	Synaptic regulation and function
Dr. Kerstin Schmidt	Cortical function and dynamics

MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Matthias Bochtler	Bochtler/MPG: Peptidases, proteases and protein degradation

MPI of Colloids and Interfaces

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Ulrich Schwarz	Modelling forces and signalling in cell adhesion (Emmy Noether Group)
Dr. Gleb Sukhorukov	Multifunctional polymeric micro and nanosized capsules (Sofja Kovalevskaja Program)
Dr. Laura Hartmann	Polymeric Biomimetics (Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group)

MPI for Biological Cybernetics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Marc Ernst	Multisensory Perception & Action Group

MPI for Developmental Biology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Gregory Velicer	Group Velicer - Social evolution in the Myxobacteria (G. Velicer)
Dr. Gregory Velicer	Gruppe Velicer - Social behaviour of Myxococcus xanthus
Dr. Silke Wiesner	Group Wiesner - Structural biology of protein ubiquitination and cell polarity
Dr. Remco Sprangers	Group Sprangers - NMR Spectroscopy of large complexes
Dr. Gaspar Jekely	Workgroup Jekely - Neurobiology of marine zooplankton (SNWG)
Dr. Andrew Renault	Workgroup Renault - Extracellular lipid signaling in Drosophila development (SNWG)
Dr. Nicholas Foulkes	Group Foulkes - Zebrafish chronobiology (CNRS)

MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Björn Hof	Complex Dynamics and Turbulence (MPG)
Dr. Oskar Hallatschek	Biological Physics and Evolutionary Dynamics (MPG)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Luther	Biomedical Physics (MPG)
Prof. Dr. Marc Timme	Network Dynamics (MPG)
Jean-Christophe Baret	Droplets, Membranes and Interfaces (MPG)

MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

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MPI for Chemical Ecology

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Dr. Dieter Spiteller	Chemcal Ecology of Actinomycetes (Emmy Noether Group)
Dr. Karl Schmid	Molecular Evolution and Polulation Genetics (Emmy Noether Group)
Dr. habil. Martin Heil	Ecology of Induced Defence Mechanisms (Emmy Noether Group)
Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth	Insect Symbiosis
Dr. Silke Sachse	Olfactory Coding in Drosophila melanogaster (BMBF Research Group)

MP Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding

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Dr. David Ferrari	Proteinmissfaltung und Krebspathogenese
Dr. habil. Marcus Fändrich	Amyloid fibrils

MPI for Evolutionary Biology

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MP Florida Institute

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Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society

Head	Research Topic
Value Not Set	Nuclear envelope dynamics
Dr. Dmitri Ivanov	Sister chromatid cohesion
Dr. Gunnar Rätsch	Machine Learning in Biology
Dr. Silke Hauf	Molecular mechanisms of chromosome segregation
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Dr. Anne Spang	Yeast and Worms: model systems for intracellular transport
Value Not Set	Cognitive Development
Value Not Set	Molecular mechanisms of the membran transport
Value Not Set	Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

MPI for Molecular Genetics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Sylvia Krobitsch	Otto-Warburg-Laboratory - Neurodegenerative Disorders
Dr. Sascha Sauer	Otto-Warburg-Laboratory - Nutrigenomic and Gene Regulation
Dr. Michael Lappe	Otto Warburg Laboratory - Bioinformatics / Structural Proteomics
Value Not Set	Otto Warburg Laboratory - Endocrine regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans development & aging (MPG)
Value Not Set	Otto Warburg Laboratory - Molecular control of skeletal development (MPG)
Value Not Set	Otto Warburg Laboratory - Gene silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (MPG)
Dr. Ulrich Stelzl	Otto Warburg Laboratory - Molecular Interaction Networks

MPI for Heart and Lung Research

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MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics

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Dr. Robert Schneider	Spemann Laboratory
Dr. Taro Fukao	Spemann Laboratory

MPI for Infection Biology

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MPI for Intelligent Systems

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Dr. Sylvie Roke	Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Bio-Interfaces (MPG)

MPI for Intelligent Systems

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MPI for Medical Research

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Soojin Ryu	Developmental Genetics of the nervous system
Dr. Andreas T. Schaefer	Behavioural Neurophysiology

MPI for Experimental Medicine

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Judith Stegmüller	Cellular Molecular Neurobiology

MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Sonja-Verena Albers	Molecular Biology of Archaea (MPG)
Dr. Lennart Randau	Prokaryotic Small RNA Biology (MPG)
Dr. Martin Thanbichler	Prokaryotic Cell Biology (MPG)

MPI for Marine Microbiology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Marc Strous	Microbial Fitness
Dr. Thorsten Dittmar	Marine Geochemistry
Dr. Marcel Kuypers	Nutrient Group

MP Research Unit for Structural Molecular Biology at DESY

Head	Research Topic

MPI of Neurobiology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Amparo Acker-Palmer	Signal transduction (Acker-Palmer)
Dr. Gaia Tavosanis	Dendrite Differentiation (Tavosanis)
Dr. Valentin Stein	Synaptic Receptor Trafficking (Stein)
Dr. Takashi Suzuki	Axon Guidance and Neuronal Connectivity (Suzuki)
Dr. Frank Pfrieger	Development of Synaptic Connections
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Dr. Ilona Grunwald-Kadow	Sensory Neurogenetics (Kadow)
Dr. Frank Bradke	Axonal Growth and Regeneration (Bradke)
Dr. Tim Gollisch	Visual Coding (Gollisch)
Dr. Hiromu Tanimoto	Behavioral Genetics (Tanimoto

MPI for Neurological Research

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Markus Ullsperger	Cognitive Neurology
Dr. Roman Thomas	Functional Cancer Genomics

MPI for Ornithology

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PD Dr. Björn Siemers	Sensory Ecology

MPI for Ornithology (Radolfzell)

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MPI of Molecular Physiology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Stefan Raunser	Molecular Electronmicroscopy

MPI for Plant Breeding Research

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MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Markus Pauly	Plant Cell Walls
Dr. Michael Udvardi	Molecular Plant Nutrition

MPI for Polymer Research

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Davide Donadio	Nanostructures and Transport
Dr. Frédéric Laquai	Optical Spectroscopy

MPI of Psychiatry

Head	Research Topic
Value Not Set	Molekulare Neurobiologie

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Chemistry, Physics & Technology

MPI for Astronomy

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MPI for Astrophysics

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MPI for Biogeochemistry

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MPI for Bioinorganic Chemistry

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MPI for Biophysical Chemistry

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Stephan Sigrist	Neuroplasticity
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marjan Rupnik	Neuroendocrinology
Dr. Erez Raz	Germ Cell Development
PD Dr. Marina Bennati	Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Dr. Wolfgang Fischle	Chromatin Biochemistry
Prof. Petra Schwille	Experimental Biophysics
Dr. Thomas Tuschl	Kombinatorische Biochemie
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Rosenmund	Molecular Mechanisms of Central Synapse Function
Prof. Peter Vöhringer	Biomolecular and chemical dynamic
Dr. Claudia Höbartner	Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Thomas Heimburg	Biophysic and thermodynamic of membranes
Dr. Henrik Bringmann	Sleep and Waking
Dr. Takeshi Sakaba	Biophysics of Synaptic Transmission
Dr. (Univ. Kiew) Halyna Shcherbata	Gene expression and signaling
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ralf Schneggenburger	Synaptic dynamics and modulation
Dr. Thomas Burg	Biological Micro- and Nanotechnology

MPI for Chemistry

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Mark Lawrence	Junior Research Group SAPHIRE (BMBF)
Dr. Frank Keppler	ORCAS (ORigin, fate and impact of biospheric Climate-relevant trace gASes during global change)

MPI of Colloids and Interfaces

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Ulrich Schwarz	Modelling forces and signalling in cell adhesion (Emmy Noether Group)
Dr. Gleb Sukhorukov	Multifunctional polymeric micro and nanosized capsules (Sofja Kovalevskaja Program)
Dr. Laura Hartmann	Polymeric Biomimetics (Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group)

MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Björn Hof	Complex Dynamics and Turbulence (MPG)
Dr. Oskar Hallatschek	Biological Physics and Evolutionary Dynamics (MPG)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Luther	Biomedical Physics (MPG)
Prof. Dr. Marc Timme	Network Dynamics (MPG)
Jean-Christophe Baret	Droplets, Membranes and Interfaces (MPG)

MPI for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

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MPI für Eisenforschung GmbH

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Fritz Haber Institute of the MP Society

Head	Research Topic
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Dr. Karsten Reuter	First-Principles Statistical Mechanics

MPI for Gravitational Physics (Hannover)

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MPI for Gravitational Physics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Yanbei Chen	Theoretical Gravitational Wave Physics
Dr. Bianca Dittrich	Canonical and Covariant Dynamics of Quantum Gravity
Dr. Niklas Beisert	Duality and Integrable Structures

MPI for Informatics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Bruno Blanchet	Static Analysis
Dr. Marcus Magnor	Graphics - Optics - Vision
Dr. Friedrich Eisenbrand	Discrete Optimization

MPI for Intelligent Systems

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Sylvie Roke	Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Bio-Interfaces (MPG)

MPI for Intelligent Systems

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MPI für Kohlenforschung

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MPI for Mathematics

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MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences

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Dr. Nicolas Dirr	Mathematical models for materials (MPG)
Dr. Johannes Zimmer	Mathematical Analysis of the Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Materials with Phase Transitions and Microstructures
Dr. Nihat Ay	Information Theory of Cognitive Systems

MPI for Meteorology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Juan Pedro Mellado	Turbulent Mixing Processes in the Earth System
Dr. Johannes Quaas	Cloud-Climate Feedbacks
Dr. Dirk Notz	The Sea Ice in the Earth System

MPI for Marine Microbiology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Marc Strous	Microbial Fitness
Dr. Thorsten Dittmar	Marine Geochemistry
Dr. Marcel Kuypers	Nutrient Group

MPI of Microstructure Physics

Head	Research Topic

MPI for Physics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Michael Kachelrieß	Cosmic Ray Physics (Emmy Noether Junior Research Group)
Dr. Frank Simon	Research Group Excellence Cluster Structure of the Universe

MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Sadegh Khochfar	Theoreticel Modeling of Cosmic Structures

MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Helge Rosner	Emmy-Noether Group
Dr. Jens Müller	(Interplay of superconductivity and magnetism in low-dimensional organic materials) Emmy-Noether group

MPI for the Science of Light

Head	Research Topic
Ph.D. Fabio Biancalana	Nonlinear Photonic Nanostructures
Dr. Christine Silberhorn	Integrated Quantum Optics

MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems

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MPI for Nuclear Physics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Alban Kellerbauer	Precision Experiments with Stored Ions and Antimatter
Dr. Elisa Resconi	High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube
Dr. Werner Rodejohann	MANITOP (ERC StG)
Value Not Set	An ultracold target for precision studies of heavy-ion atom collisions (DFG, Emmy-Noether)
Value Not Set	Atmospheric Isotope Physics (BMBF - AFO 2000)
Value Not Set	Neutrino Physics (MPG)
Dr. Carsten Welsch	Quantum Systems and Advanced Accelerator Research
Dr. Thomas Pfeifer	Ultrafast Quantum Physics and Strong-Field/Attosecond Science

MPI of Molecular Physiology

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Dr. Stefan Raunser	Molecular Electronmicroscopy

MPI for Plasma Physics

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MPI for Plasma Physics

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MPI for Polymer Research

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Dr. Davide Donadio	Nanostructures and Transport
Dr. Frédéric Laquai	Optical Spectroscopy

MPI of Quantum Optics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Reinhard Kienberger	Attosecond Dynamics
Dr. Tobias Schätz	Quantum simulations
Dr. Tobias Kippenberg	Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements
Dr. Peter Hommelhoff	Ultrafast Quantum Optics
Dr. Matthias Kling	Attosecond Imaging
Dr. Masaki Hori	Antimatter Spectroscopy

MPI for Radio Astronomy

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MPI for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern site

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MPI for Software Systems, Saarbrücken site

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MPI for Solar System Research

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Prof. Dr. Laurent Gizon	Helio- and Asteroseismology (MPG)

MPI for Solid State Research

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Value Not Set	Research Group "Computational Approaches to Superconductivity"
Value Not Set	Research Group "Organic Electronics"
Dr. Peter Wahl	Research Group "Tunneling Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials"
Dr. Markus Lippitz	Research Group / Juniorprofessorship "Ultrafast Nanooptics"
Dr. Gabriel Bester	Research Group "Theory of Semiconductor Nanostructures"

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Humanities & Social Sciences

MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Michael Hofreiter	Molecular Ecology (MPG)
Dr. Julia Ostner	Integrative Primate Socioecology (MPG)
Dr. Tricia Striano	Cultural Ontogeny (MPS)
Dr. Susan Perry	Cultural Phylogeny (MPS)
Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf	Comparative Population Linguistics (MPG)

MPI for Social Anthropology

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Bibliotheca Hertziana - MPI for Art History

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence - MPI

Head	Research Topic
PD Dr. Michael Thimann	Selbständige Nachwuchsgruppe PD Dr. Michael Thimann

MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky	Neurotypology
Value Not Set	Neurokognition der Entscheidungsfindung
Value Not Set	Kognitive Psychophysiologie der Handlung
PD Dr. Kai Alter	Neurocognition of Prosody
Dr. Peter Keller	Music Cognition and Action
Dr. Simone Schütz-Bosbach	Body and Self
Dr. Stefan Kölsch	Neurocognition of Music

MPI Collective Goods

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Andreas Glöckner	Intuitive Experts

MPI for Biological Cybernetics

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Marc Ernst	Multisensory Perception & Action Group

MPI for Demographic Research

Head	Research Topic
Mikko Myrskylä	Lifecourse Dynamics and Demographic Change
Laura Bernardi	The Culture of Reproduction
Value Not Set	Population, Economy, and Environment
Value Not Set	The Demography of Early Adulthood
Value Not Set	Social Dynamics and Fertility
Annette Baudisch	Modeling the Evolution of Aging

MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

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MPI of Economics

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MPI for the History of Science

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PD Dr. H. Otto Sibum	Experimental History of Science (MPG)
PD Dr. Dagmar Schäfer	Concepts and Modalities: Practical Knowledge Transmission

MPI for Human Development

Head	Research Topic
Dr. med. Hauke Heekeren	Neurocognition of Decision-Making (Heekeren)
Value Not Set	Lack of Training: Employment and Life Chances of the Less Educated (MPG-Nachwuchsgruppe)
Dr. Michaela Riediger	Affect Across the Lifespan

MPI for Intellectual Property

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MPI for Foreign and International Criminal Law

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MPI for Comparative and International Private Law

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Dr. Nadjma Yassari	Family and succession law in Islamic countries

MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law

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Dr. Silja Vöneky	Democratic Legitimacy of Ethical Decisions: Ethics and Law in the Areas of Biotechnology and Moderne Medicine

MPI for European Legal History

Head	Research Topic
Dr. Stefan Ruppert	Age and Law (Max-Planck-Research Group, MPG)
PD Dr. Miloš Vec	Law in the Industrial Revolution (Junior Research Group, MPG)

MPI of Psychiatry

Head	Research Topic
Value Not Set	Molekulare Neurobiologie

MPI for Psycholinguistics

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Value Not Set	Comparative cognitive anthropology
Michael Dunn	Evolutionary processes in language and culture
Value Not Set	Junior Research Group

MPI Social Law

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MPI for the Study of Societies

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MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance

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