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Research Schools

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development provides many opportunities for predocs. Among others, the two International Max Planck Research Schools at the Institute as well as the Max Planck School of Cognition provide an excellent training context.

International Max Planck Research School on Computational Methods in Psychiatry and Ageing Research (IMPRS COMP2PSYCH)

The IMPRS COMP2PSYCH is part of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research and combines and integrates training in computer science, applied mathematics and statistics, psychology, and psychiatry with the goal to enable fellows to adapt and develop computational and statistical tools according to their data-analytic and scientific needs in the fields of psychiatry and lifespan psychology.
The goal is to enable doctoral students to adapt and further develop computer-assisted and statistical methods according to scientific needs in the field of psychiatry and developmental psychology.

International Max Planck Research School on Learning, Institutions, and Future Evolution (IMPRS LIFE)

The research focus of LIFE is the development of human behavior across the lifespan in interaction with its environment. LIFE pursues an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to understand how people develop in a changing world, make decisions, and shape their social, cultural, and technological environments.

The program brings together perspectives from the social, behavioral, and life sciences, with particular emphasis on the role of environments, institutions, and emerging technologies in development across the lifespan.

The aim of the Research School is to provide advanced, internationally oriented training in the study of human behavior and its contextual conditions.

Max Planck School of Cognition

The Max Planck School of Cognition is a graduate program that offers young scientists the opportunity to obtain broadly based insights into the methods and research approaches used in the rapidly developing field of cognitive science. Its goal is to understand and investigate human cognition from a range of scientific perspectives. Disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, physics, computer science, philosophy, and biology contribute to this endeavor.