Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolf Singer studied Medicine in Munich and Paris, obtained his MD from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and his PhD from the Technical University in Munich. He is Director em. at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Founding Director both of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience (ESI) and Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum.
His research is focused on the neuronal substrate of higher cognitive functions, and especially on the question how the distributed sub-processes in the brain are coordinated and bound together in order to give rise to coherent perception and action. These studies are performed with electrophysiological techniques in behaviorally trained monkeys and with non-invasive imaging methods in human subjects.
Merel Kindt (born 26 June 1967) is Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Over the years, she has established a highly successful program of research on the plasticity of fear memory. Specifically, she has convincingly demonstrated that the emotional expression of fear memories can be neutralized in humans (e.g., Nature Neuroscience, 2009), and which conditions are essential for this to occur (e.g., Science, 2013). Kindt recently designed an innovative study in which she translated fundamental insights on the plasticity of fear memory to a clinical population (Biological Psychiatry, 2015). The potential of her research program lies in the unique bidirectional translational approach: It builds on fundamental insights from animal and human neuroscience literature as well as on clinical science.
