Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Life Sciences

How does the brain work? How does it control the way we think, learn, and remember? What constitutes both biological and artificial intelligence? How should intelligent technology be developed? These are the questions the scientists at the Faculty of Life Sciences are asking themselves. Together with their cooperation partners, they have developed Berlin into an internationally recognized location for cutting-edge neuroscientific research in recent years.

Contact persons

• Prof. Dr. Michael Brecht; Director ICCN; Institute of Biology, Animal Physiology / Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation
• Prof. Dr. Matthew Larkum; Spokesperson SFB 1315; Institute of Biology, Neuronal Plasticity
• Prof. Dr. Rasha Abdel-Rahman; Co-speaker EXC SCIoI; Institute of Psychology, Neurocognitive Psychology

Collaborative projects of the Faculty of Life Sciences

• Collaborative Research Center 1315: Mechanisms and Disturbances in Memory Consolidation: From synapses to systems (DFG)
• Research Training Group 2386: Extrospection: External Access to Higher Cognitive Processes (DFG)
• Interdisciplinary Center Computational Neuroscience (ICCN)(Humboldt University Berlin)
• Bernstein Center Computational Neuroscience (BCCN)
• Berlin School of Mind and Brain (Berlin)

Berlin-wide collaborative projects with participation of the Faculty of Life Sciences

• Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure (DFG)
• Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence (SCIoI) (DFG)
• Einstein Center for Neuroscience (EZN) (Berlin)