Bridging The Gap

The Berlin School of Mind and Brain offers a unique research and training environment where natural science and the humanities intersect. Founded in 2006 as part of Germany’s Excellence Initiative, the School offers a three-year interdisciplinary doctoral program in English. The School has a faculty comprised of 60 distinguished researchers, including three Leibniz Prize winners and five Max Planck directors, which cover the gamut of research in the mind and brain science. Each year the School accepts ten to fifteen doctoral candidates.

Research within the Berlin School of Mind and Brain focuses on the interface between the humanities and the neurosciences. Of particular interest are research areas that fall on the borders between the mind sciences (e.g., philosophy, linguistics, psychology, economics), and the brain sciences (e.g., neurology, psychiatry, computational neuroscience, molecular and cellular neuroscience). Major topics of research within the program include: conscious and unconscious perception, decision-making, language, brain plasticity and lifespan ontogeny and brain disorders and mental dysfunction.