Ernst Strüngmann Institute

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Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society
Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society
Logo of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Ernst Strüngmann Foundation
Legal form of the carrier: Foundation, endowment
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Membership: Max Planck Society associated
Facility location: Frankfurt am Main
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Neurobiology
Areas of expertise: brain research
Basic funding: Foundation, Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann
Management: Pascal Fries
Homepage: www.esi-frankfurt.de

The Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society (ESI) is a private research institute in Frankfurt am Main . It was founded in September 2008 by Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann and has the legal form of a "non-profit company with limited liability" ( gGmbH ). To finance the ESI, the Strüngmann brothers founded the Ernst Strüngmann Foundation, which is named after their father. The institute conducts research in the field of cognitive neuroscience and brain research.

The founding directors of the ESI are the neurophysiologist Wolf Singer and, since 2009, the physician and brain researcher Pascal Fries , who is the managing director of the institute.

The ESI is also an "Associated Facility" of the Max Planck Society (MPG), Pascal Fries is a "Scientific Member" of the MPG.

The ESI comprises four working groups (as of July 2019):

  • Fries Lab, Pascal Fries
  • Wolf Singer's Senior Research Group
  • Cuntz Lab, Research Group Hermann Cuntz
  • Vinck Lab, Research Group Martin Vinck

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ see the MPG page about the institute at http://www.mpg.de/917421/ernst_struengmann_institute
  2. ↑ see the MPG website with a short résumé of Fries at http://www.mpg.de/470751/neurobiologie_wissM26