Arno Villringer

Arno Villringer
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Germany
AwardsPater Leander Fischer Award, German Society of Laser Medicine (2005), endowed professorship (by Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft) at Charité – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1996), Gerhard Hess Award, DFG (1993), DFG foreign exchange scholarship (1986)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, neurology, stroke research, brain plasticity
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute (professor, director), University of Leipzig (Professor), Charité - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Honorary professor)

Arno Villringer (born 1958, Schopfheim, Germany) is a Director at the Department of Neurology [1] at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences[2] in Leipzig, Germany; Director of the Department of Cognitive Neurology at University of Leipzig Medical Center;[3] and Academic Director of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain [4] and the Mind&Brain Institute,[5] Berlin. He holds a full professorship at University of Leipzig and an honorary professorship at Charité, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From July 2022 to June 2025 he is the Chairperson of the Human Sciences Section of the Max Planck Society.[6]

  1. ^ "Department of Neurology".
  2. ^ "Home".
  3. ^ "Unser Team".
  4. ^ "Berlin School of Mind and Brain: Bodies and committees".
  5. ^ "Berlin School of Mind and Brain: MindBrainBody Institute".
  6. ^ "The Human Sciences Section".