About Dr. Svenja Brodt

Max Planck Research Group Leader

Svenja Brodt studied psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Saarland University and LMU Munich and completed her doctoral training at the University of Tübingen on the topic of imaging human rapid neocortical memory formation. As a postdoctoral researcher, she investigated the role of sleep for neocortical memory representations. For her work, Svenja was awarded the Biopsychology prize by the German Psychological Society as well as the Attempto prize by the Universitätsbund Tübingen. Since 2023, she is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics.