The Max Planck Institute for Human Development is dedicated to the study of human development, education, and human-machine interaction. Researchers of various disciplines; including psychology, education, sociology, medicine, history, economics, computer science, and mathematics; work together on interdisciplinary projects at the Berlin Institute.
The research questions they examine include how people make effective decisions even under time pressure and information overload, how the school as an institution affects students; development and learning processes, how the interaction between behaviour and brain function changes over a persons lifespan, how human emotions change in a historical context and how they have affected the course of history itself, as well as what social innovations and challenges digitalization brings with it.
The Institute’s four research centers, a Lise Meitner Group, an Emmy Noether Group, and three Max Planck Research Groups are also involved in numerous national and international collaborative research efforts with universities and nonuniversity research institutions.
More information about our research can be found on our Research and News pages, and in our brochure.
The Institute is one of more than 80 research institutions operated by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, an independent, nonprofit research organization. The Max Planck Institutes carry out basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences, and social and human sciences.
Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research was launched in April 2014. It is the result of the existing collaboration between the Max Planck Society and University College London that began in 2011. The UCL Centre is targeting the development and application of computational methods that reorganize and improve our understanding of mental illness and behavioral aging. more
Research Schools
Three International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS) and one Max Planck School have been set up at the Institute to advance the careers of young scientists. They offer especially talented young researchers the opportunity to participate in a structured doctoral program providing excellent research conditions and an intensive, interdisciplinary learning experience. The Institute’s three IMPRS and one Max Planck School are currently:
