History
Important milestones of our institute's development:
1981:
Foundation of the Institute for Neurobiology and Brain Research (INH) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR by Hansjürgen Matthies
1989:
Moving into the new building
1992:
Reestablishment as Institute for Neurobiology (IfN) with Henning Scheich as founding director as well as Eckart Gundelfinger and Klaus Reymann as further department heads
2004:
Foundation of the Department „Behavioral Neurology“, directed by Hans-Jochen Heinze
2005:
Commissioning of Europe's first 7 Tesla ultra-high field MRI
2008:
Change in LIN management: longstanding Administrative Director Gerd Brandt hands over to incoming Director Thekla Thiel
2010:
Eckart Gundelfinger (left) as successor of Henning Scheich (right) becomes new Scientific Managing Director
2011:
Foundation of the Department "Systems Physiology of Learning", directed by Frank Ohl
2011:
Demolition of the old institute and the moving into the new building - going along with a change of logo: The IfN becomes the LIN
2012:
Bertram Gerber's Department "Genetics of Learning and Memory" starts working
2018:
A 9.4 Tesla animal scanner was inaugurated at the LIN
2020:
Stefan Remy (right) succeeds Eckart Gundelfinger (left) and becomes the new Managing Director. The scientist establishes the new Department of Cellular Neurosciences.