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Helmholtz International Lab

Understanding our brain

With BigBrain, they created the most detailed digital model of the human brain. With HIBALL, they are now taking the next step. In an interview, Katrin Amunts from Forschungszentrum Jülich and Alan Evans from McGill University tell us how they are getting closer to uncovering the secrets of the brain.

In our six research areas, we work on the pressing issues facing our society.

Helmholtz in Numbers

45.000

Employees at Helmholtz are working on the world of tomorrow.

5,9 Mrd

Euro budget annually offers our talents excellent conditions for cutting-edge research.

18

national labs are dedicated to the big questions of our time every day.

~13.000

Researchers from all over the world use our research infrastructures every year.

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

German Cancer Research Center

German Aerospace Center

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Forschungszentrum Jülich

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Helmholtz Munich

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
German Cancer Research Center
German Aerospace Center
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Forschungszentrum Jülich
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Helmholtz Munich
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

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Stefan Pfister

DKFZ

Francesca Santoro

Jülich

Nataliia Fedorchenko

Jülich

Mariia Nesterkina

HZI

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Jülich

John Paul Strachan

Jülich

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Munich

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DLR

Verena Mohaupt

AWI

Katja Matthes

Geomar

Robert Pitz-Paal

DLR

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Munich

Markus Rex

AWI

Christian Haas

AWI

Tommaso Calarco

Jülich

Catherine Dubourdieu

HZB

Kristel Michielsen

Jülich

Ulrike Protzer

Munich

Xiaoxiang Zhu

DLR

Ben Engel

Munich

Peter Fineran

HZI

Ursula Bassler

DESY

Günter Hasinger

DLR

Peter Wasserscheid

Jülich

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

KIT

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DESY

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Esther Horvath

AWI

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Barbara Terhal

Jülich

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AWI

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Gérard Krause

HZI