Prof. Dr. med. Katrin Amunts receives this year's Hector Science Award 2021
With this award, the Hector Foundation II honors Katrin Amunts' unprecedented research on a worldwide unique frahling method of the human brain.
For this purpose, she and her team developed the cytoarchitectonic Julich Brain Atlas, which should lead to a better understanding of the organizational principles of the human brain. This digital 3D atlas can be continuously supplemented and is accessible to both scientists and the scientific public. It also serves as a reference brain and basis for the integration of brain data.
Katrin Amunts is professor of brain research and director of the C. and O. Vogt Institute at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. She is also director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, and has been scientific director of the Human Brain Project since 2016.