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1. Conferences
LIN Neuroscience conference series The Institute organizes high-profile scientific conferences. The conferences offer national and international scientists the opportunity to exchange ideas.
2. Vacancies
Our institute thrives on its employees. Become part of LIN as a ↗ W3-Professor of „Integrative Neurobiology” (f/m/d) Please submit your application electronically by June 26, 2026, to…
3. Data Protection
We are delighted that you are visiting our website and would like to thank you for your interest in our work. The protection of your privacy is important to us in this respect. To see how we…
4. LIN at Tomorrow Labs: Hands-on brain research at the Science Harbour
On 6 June, Magdeburg’s Science Harbour will become the laboratory of the future.
5. 7th FAM Conference 2026
May, 20 - 22 2026 The conference series focuses on bringing new insights on major controversies in recognition memory as well as bridging further human and animal memory.  The world's…
6. Organisation
How is the LIN organized? Which structures exist? The Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology is a Foundation under public law. The purpose of our foundation is to promote science and basic research in…
7. Combinatorial NeuroImaging Core Facility
Downloads The Combinatorial NeuroImaging (CNI) Core Facility at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology combines an outstanding range of imaging techniques for non-invasive human imaging,…
8. Girls’ Day at LIN: Try your hand at research
On Girls’ Day, we opened our labs: gaining insights, trying things out, contributing ideas, and making discoveries.
9. Research Group Neurocognitive Development
The ability to focus on relevant information and to ignore irrelevant information is essential for learning success and academic performance. Our vision is to enhance the basic understanding of…
10. Department Functional Architecture of Memory
The medial temporal lobe (MTL) of the brain is crucial for memory. Damage to this brain region leads to severe memory deficits as seen in aging or in patients with amnesia. The focus of our…
11. Expert service
You research for an article, a TV or radio broadcast? At LIN, you find experts for these and other topics: Learning and memory Working memory Attention in children and adults Hearing…
12. Social Media & brochures
Social Media Follow us on our social media channels: Brochures LIN Research Magazine 2020/2021 LIN Research Report 2018/2019 Festschrift on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of our…
13. Media coverage
Which media reported about our research activities?
14. past FAM conferences
The conference series focuses on bringing new insights on major controversies in recognition memory as well as bridging further human and animal memory. The event is organized by our department in…
15. Boards
The international Scientific Advisory Board advises the LIN on scientific and technical issues of current research and future development. SAB members visit the LIN annually and report on the…
16. Somatosensory and Body Perception
We study psychological and brain mechanisms related to the way we experience touch and the space that surround us, and how this interaction is used to construct representations of our body and to…
17. Registration now open: 
7th FAM Conference 2026 | May 20–22, 2026
The international conference Functional Architecture of Memory (FAM) will take place for the seventh time – registration is now open! From May 20 to 22, 2026, FAM will once again bring together…
18. Work Life Balance
The compatibility of career and family is a central component of our institute´s culture. We aim to make our working conditions family-conscious and life-phase oriented. That´s why, we offer a…
19. Awarded once again: LIN receives rating for family-friendly working practices
The award with distinction from the berufundfamilie audit confirms that we are on the right track.
20. Cooperations and Projects
The LIN is member in the following Leibniz research alliances, networks and campuses: Das LIN ist in folgenden Leibniz-Forschungsverbünden und -netzwerken aktiv: Leibniz Education Research…
21. Hanna Zwaka receives Leibniz Best Minds funding
LIN is delighted to announce that Hanna Zwaka has received one of the prestigious Leibniz Best Minds grants for junior research group leaders. This is the third time that this award has been…
22. Two LIN doctoral graduates awarded doctoral prize by OVGU
Double reason to celebrate
23. Attention: Predisposition determines whether or not. The environment determines how well.
Why is it sometimes easy for us to stay focused, yet at other times seemingly impossible?
24. Why breaks help – but not in the way we thought!
A study shows that breaks influence our learning in a way that has not been widely recognised until now.
25. Science that connects
L&M 2025 provides impetus for the future.
26. The flow of attention
Genetics determines whether. The environment determines how.
27. Media and Public Relations
Brain research is a fascinating science, spanning from health and education policy, to the great philosophical questions about the individuality of human thought and the perceptibility of the…
28. The parallel evolution of complex thinking
Public lecture with Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Onur Güntürkün on 28 September 2025 | 7 p.m.
29. European top funding for Sanja Bauer Mikulovic
On the trail of the circuits of empathy
30. LIN contributes to research into mental health conditions with neurobiology
Further development of the German Center for Mental Health (DZPG)
31. Learning from experience, daring to try new things: The XV Learning & Memory Conference
International speakers and young scientists gather in Magdeburg
32. LIN Alumni
Group leader Prof. Dr. Anna Katharina Braun Research Group "Auditory Imprinting" und Project Group "Early childhood learning" (1993-2001) Department of Zoology at Otto von Guericke University…
33. Good scientific practice
Good Scientific Practice (GSP) is essential for public confidence in research evidence and researchers. It protects the reputation and careers of researchers, promotes scientific and economic…
34. Cognitive Neurophysiology
The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, which are part of the medial temporal lobe (MTL), support memory and spatial navigation functions. Our research focuses on neural computation underlying…
35. Contact
You would like to contact us or you have a question? Please fill in the following form: Address: Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Brenneckestraße 6 39118 Magdeburg …
36. On the death of Prof. Dr. Henning Scheich
An obituary for our founding director
37. Research Group Behavioral Neuroscience
Sleep deprivation is a common and underestimated problem in modern society. A permanently disrupted sleep-wake cycle can lead to serious health consequences. After just one night of sleep…
38. Line of Sight 2027
Let's develop goals together We warmly invite you to our biennial LIN internal event, where we look to the future. This year, we would like to reinterpret the format of our traditional…
39. Equal Opportunities
The Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) is firmly committed to its responsibility to actively promote equality and equal opportunities. We regard this concern not only as a duty, but also as a…
40. Spinal cord more than just a data highway
The spinal cord processes and interprets sensory stimuli based on previous knowledge - a crucial step in the nervous system.
41. Spinal cord more than just a data highway
The spinal cord processes and interprets sensory stimuli based on previous knowledge - a crucial step in the nervous system.
42. XII Leibniz Lecture
with Floris de Lange from the Radboud University in Nijmegen (NL)
43. We stand together and for each other
Our grief, our heartfelt sympathy and our thoughts are with the victims, relatives and those affected
44. Leibniz Lecture XI
Neural Basis of a silent Alzheimer's disease phase - Inna Slutsky | Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
45. Hippocampal plasticity and memory Group
The ability to store and consciously recall past experiences is crucial for survival and establishing a coherent sense of reality. This ability in mammals is dependent on the hippocampal formation,…
46. Career Talk with Dr. Anika Dirks
LIN Postdoc - Science Management – Industry. Which skills help you outside of science?
47. Love myths - neuroscientific perspectives
The latest edition of ‘’Knowledge unplugged‘’ deals with love.
48. Leibniz Lecture X
by speaker Max-Philipp Stenner (LIN)
49. Symposium on Invasive Neurology & Neuroscience
Latest findings and collaborations at the interface of invasive neurology and neuroscience in Magdeburg
50. No, it wasn't like that!

ARTE documentary sheds light on the phenomenon of ‘false memories’
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