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Director of the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research
Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Katrin Amunts
Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research
Heinrich-Heine-University
Merowingerplatz. 1a
40225 Düsseldorf
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Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1),
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
52425 Jülich Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Research Interests
  • Developing a multi-level, multimodal atlas of the human brain to approach a comprehensive understanding of brain structure and function
  • Cytoarchitectonic, molecular and fiber architecture of the brain
  • Combining image analysis, high-performance computing and big data analytics to create ultra-high resolution models of the human brain such as the BigBrain
  • MR-based morphometry in healthy brains and in disease
  • Intersubject variability
  • Interspecies differences
  • Ethics
Selected Publications
  1. Amunts K. (2025). The Vogt Collection – Reactivating a treasure facilitating brain research, neurology and psychiatry. Brain. DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaf365
  2. Hansson N, Fangerau H, De Sio F, Grell U, Amunts K. (2025). Pioneers of modern brain research—Cécile and Oskar Vogt and the Nobel Prize. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 19: 1679993. DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2025.1679993
  3. Axer, M, Amunts K (2022) Scale matters – the nested human connectome. Science, 378:500-504. DOI: 10.1126/science.abq2599
  4. Amunts K, Lippert T. (2021). Brain research challenges supercomputing. Science, 374(6571): 1054 - 1055. DOI: 10.1126/science.abl8519
  5. Amunts K, Mohlberg H, Bludau S, Zilles K (2020). Julich-Brain – a 3D probabilistic atlas of human brain’s cytoarchitecture. Science, 369:988-992. DOI: 10.1126/science.abb4588
  6. Stacho M, Herold C, Rook N, Wagner H, Axer M, Amunts K, Güntürkün O. (2020). A cortex-like canonical circuit in the avian forebrain. Science, 369: 1585. DOI: 10.1126/science.abc5534
  7. Kiwitz K, Schiffer C, Spitzer H, Dickscheid T, Amunts K (2020). Deep learning networks reflect cytoarchitectonic features used in brain mapping. Scientific Reports, 10:22039 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78638-y
  8. Salles A, Bjaalie JG, Evers K, Farisco M, Fothergill BT, Guerrero M, Maslen H, Muller J, Prescott T, Stahl BC, Walter H, Zilles K, Amunts K (2019). The Human Brain Project: Responsible brain research for the benefit of society. Neuron, 101(3):380-384. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.005
  9. Amunts K (2018). Big-data studies need to be part of policy discussion. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(2):94. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0292-9
  10. Bittner N, Jockwitz C, Mühleisen TW, Hoffstaedter F, Eickhoff S, Moebus S, Bayen UJ, Cichon S, Zilles K, Amunts K, Caspers S (2019). Combining lifestyle risks to disentangle brain structure and functional connectivity differences in older adults. Nature Communications, 10(1): 621. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08500-x