Environmental Neuroscience

Simone Kühn, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Environmental Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Professor of Neural Plasticity in Psychiatric Disease at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. Her primary research focuses on how the human brain is shaped by the physical environment in healthy individuals and in psychiatric patients. Moreover, she has studied brain plasticity in response to lifestyle factors and habits with various brain imaging methods. She studied psychology at Columbia University in New York and Potsdam University, and received her doctorate in psychology from University of Leipzig. As she worked at University of Gent in Belgium, Charité University Medicine in Berlin and at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.