Katrin Amunts

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Katrin Amunts (born September 5, 1962 in Potsdam ) is a German physician and professor of brain research . In 2012 Amunts was appointed to the German Ethics Council.

Professional background

From 1981 to 1987 Katrin Amunts studied medicine with a focus on biophysics at the II Medical Institute in Moscow . During her studies, she worked at the institutes for brain research and clinical psychiatry there. After completing her doctorate in Moscow, Amunts was initially a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology in Berlin, before moving to the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf in 1992 . In 1999 she completed her specialist training in anatomy , in which she also qualified as a professor the following year. From 1999 onwards, Katrin Amunts worked as a working group leader at the Institute for Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich . From 2004 to 2006 Amunts was the head of a junior research group sponsored by the Helmholtz Society .

From 2004 to 2013 Amunts was professor for structural-functional brain mapping at the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of the University Hospital Aachen , where she also headed the section for structural-functional brain mapping from 2008. Since 2013 she has been Professor of Brain Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Director of the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research at Düsseldorf University Hospital . Since 2008 she has also been director of the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Amunts has a daughter.

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SURNAME Amunts, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam