Katrin Amunts appointed to Ethics Council

Prof. Dr Katrin Amunts is one of the six newly nominated members for the German Ethics Council. The neuroscientist is Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at the Research Centre Jülich and since 2004 Professor for Structural-Functional Brain Mapping, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the RWTH Aachen University. With its statements, the German Ethics Council, established in 2008, contributes decisively to social and political debates on bioethical issues and gives impulses towards a responsible weighing of benefits.

List of the members of the German Ethics Council

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