International Max Planck Research School for Brain & Behavior

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Brain & Behavior is a fully-funded PhD program in Bonn, Germany that offers a competitive world-class PhD training and research program in the field of neuroethology and neuroscience.

Application Deadline:

November 1

Program Language:

English

Program Duration

4 years

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Doctoral Disciplines

Biology
Molecular Biomedicine
Neurosciences

Type of Program

International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)

Faculties

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Medicine

Short Description

Our research groups bring a unique combination of experimental and computational approaches to bear on the question of how the brain controls behavior across a variety of species. Establishing the link between brain circuits and behavior is known as ‘neuroethology’, which aims to understand how the collective activity of the vast numbers of interconnected neurons in the brain gives rise to the diversity of animal behaviors. To gain a full understanding of brain circuity underlying a specific behavior requires the combination of research approaches focusing on different levels of detail — ranging from the anatomical reconstruction of neural circuits to the quantitative behavioral analysis of freely moving animals and natural behavior.

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