Contact Persons

Research Centers

• Adaptive Rationality: Prof. Dr. Ralph Hertwig, Director
• Lifespan Psychology: Prof. Dr. Ulman Lindenberger, Director
  
• History of Emotions: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ute Frevert, Managing Director
• Humans and Machines: Prof. Dr. Iyad Rahwan, Director

Emeritus Groups

• Educational Research: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Baumert, Director emeritus
• Development and Socialization: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Edelstein, Director emeritus
• Adaptive Behavior and Cognition: Prof. Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer, Director emeritus
• Sociology and the Study of the Life Course: Prof. Dr. Karl Ulrich Mayer, Director emeritus

Lise Meitner Groups

• Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience: Prof. Dr. Simone Kühn, Group Leader

Research Groups

• Emmy Noether Group: Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group: Douglas D. Garrett, Ph.D., Group Leader
• Max Planck Research Group iSearch: Prof. Dr. Azzurra Ruggeri, Group Leader
• Max Planck Research Group Naturalistic Social Cognition: Dr. Annie E. Wertz, Group Leader
• Max Planck Research Group NeuroCode: Dr. Nicolas Schuck, Group Leader

Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research

• Helena Maravilla, Coordinator

Service Units

Administration

• Jennifer Apel, Head of Administration
• Gabriele Nicolai, Secretariat Head of Administration
• Kerstin Köppel, Secretariat Head of Administration

Library and Research Information

• Sebastian Nix, Head

Public Relations

• Kerstin Skork, Head
• Elena Hungerland, PR Advisor
• Nicole Siller, PR Advisor (currently on parental leave)

Information Services & Technology

• Marion Neumann, Deputy Head

Technical Services

• Jörg Tellmann, Head

Central Services

• Jürgen Rossbach, Head (temporarily)