The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics investigates information processing in the brains of humans and animals. Experimental and theoretical methods as well as computer simulations help to investigate the processes that translate sensory stimuli into perceptions and memories, and allow us to make decisions and act. In addition to the departments Computational Neuroscience (Director: Peter Dayan), Physiology Cognitive Processes (Director: Nikos Logothetis) and Perception, Cognition & Action (former Director: Heinrich Bülthoff) listed below, two other departments for High Field Magnetic Resonance (Max Planck Fellow: Klaus Scheffler) and Sensory & Sensoromotor Systems (Max Planck Fellow: Li Zhaoping) are located at the Institute. The corresponding links can be found here:
https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/departments.
PhD opportunities
This institute has an International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS):
IMPRS for Cognitive and Systems NeuroscienceIn addition, there is the possibility of individual doctoral research. Please contact the directors or research group leaders at the Institute.