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Dr. med. Katrin AMUNTS Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich; Director Cécile and Oskar Vogt-Institute of Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

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1987-1991 Research assistant, Research Center Dummerstorf, Germany
1992 Postdoctoral, Fraunhofer Institute Berlin, Germany
1992-1999 Postdoctoral, C. & O. Vogt Institute, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
1999-2008 PI "Brain Mapping", Institute of Medicine, Research Centre Jülich
2004-2008 Professor for Structural-Functional Brain Mapping (W2), RWTH Aachen University, and PI, Institute of Medicine, Research Centre Jülich
2008-2013 Full professor (W3), Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University and Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, INM-1, Research Centre Jülich
since 2013 Full professor at the C. & O. Vogt Institute of Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, INM-1, Research Centre Jülich

Mitgliedschaften

Member of the Ethic Advisory Board of the German Cohort
Member of the German Ethics Council
Member of the Board of Trustees of the European Academy for Women in Politics and Business (EAF)
Member of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

Publikationen

Zilles K., Amunts K.: Centenary of Brodmann s map - conception and fate. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11(2), 2010, 139-145
Zilles K., Amunts K.: Segregation and wiring in the brain. Science, 335(6076), 2012, 1582-1584
Amunts K., Lepage C., Borgeat L., Mohlberg H., Dickscheid T., Rousseau M., Bludau S., Bazin P.L., Lewis L.B., Oros-Peusquens A.M., Shah N.J., Lippert T., Zilles K., Evans A.C.: BigBrain: An ultrahigh-resolution 3D human brain model. Science, 340(6139), 2013, 1472-1475
Amunts K., Hawrylycz M., Van Essen D., Van Horn J.D., Harel N., Poline J.B., De Martino F., Bjaalie J.G., Dehaene-Lambertz G., Dehaene S., Valdes-Sosa P., Thirion B., Zilles K., Hill S.L., Abrams M.B., Tass P.A., Vanduffel W., Evans A.C., Eickhoff S.B.: Interoperable atlases of the human brain. Neuroimage., epub ahead of print, 2014

Auszeichnungen

Leader of a Research group of the Helmholtz Association (internationally competitive award), 2004-2006
Programme speaker "Decoding the Human Brain", Helmholtz Association, since 2012
Subproject leader "Human Brain Data" in the Human Brain Project, since 2013
MIT Technology Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014 - Brain Mapping (http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526501/brain-mapping/), 2014