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Following the complex paths that information takes through our brains

News

Felix Glang receives Otto Hahn Medal

June 27, 2025

Basic research without animal testing?

June 18, 2025

Start of the “Night owl or early bird?” science roadshow

May 05, 2025

Braitenberg 100

Event June 19, 2026

Symposium on computational neuroscience: past, present, and future
June 19 to 21, 2026

Research

All information about our basic research, departments and research groups

Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025

Event July 14, 2025

International conference to happen in Tübingen from July 14 to 16

Cybernetics Seminar Series

Fridays at 11:00 a.m. (CET), scientists from all over the world present their latest findings from their research.

How light affects our biological clock

Event

Tour dates and locations of the science roadshow “Night owl or early bird?”

Careers

Are you curious, determined, creative and enthusiastic about our basic research? Then come and join us!

International Max Planck Research School

Key pillars of our doctoral funding: the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) and the Graduate Training Centre for Neuroscience (GTC) in Tübingen

CaCTüS

Computation and Cognition Tübingen Summer Internship

Max Planck Research Group Leaders (m/f/d)

July 07, 2025

We seek to recruit two independent research groups working in relevant areas and collaborating with each other, departments at the Institute and beyond.

Research Assistant in Real-Time fMRI and Closed-Loop Brain Stimulation (fMRI-TMS)

June 03, 2025

(with the possibility of a PhD position)
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neurotechnology, research group leader: Romy Lorenz

Molecular Biology Technician Position (m/f/d)

April 28, 2025

Max Planck Research Group Systems Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, Research Group leaders: Drew Robson and Jennifer Li

More Job Offers

Light O´Clock

Podcast

A podcast on light and your body clock

Episode 3 - Tuned In: The Rhythms of the Brain
What are brain oscillations, and why do we need them? In this episode, co-host Chiara Zanonato sits down with neuroscientist Pascal Fries to explore how these rhythmic patterns emerge in the brain and what roles they play.

MP Neuro

Basic research in the neurosciences at the Max Planck Society

Signals & Synapses

Podcast