Career
She is the Professor of the C. and O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the University of Düsseldorf and is also Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine in INM-1 in Forschungszentrum Jülich. She is one of most prominent neuroscientists in brain mapping in the world. Katrin Amunts was born in Potsdam, East Germany in 1962.
She studied medicine and biophysics at Pirogov Medical School in the Soviet Union.
She earned a doctorate in neuroscience and anatomy at the Institute of Brain Research in Moscow in 1989. She later trained at the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin and joined the C. & O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the University of Düsseldorf.
She was a professor in Aachen University before rejoining the University of Düsseldorf in 2013.
