Katrin Amunts Receives Hector Science Award
The Research Field Information congratulates Prof. Katrin Amunts, a brain researcher from Jülich, on being awarded the prestigious Hector Science Prize 2021. The Hector Foundation II awarded the prize to the Jülich brain researcher in recognition of her accomplishments in mapping the human brain as part of the Human Brain Project as well as the interdisciplinary combination of neuroscientific basic research and supercomputing used to this end. The Hector Science Award is endowed with € 150,000. The award ceremony will take place in Heidelberg in May. (Source: Forschungszentrum Jülich – Press releases)
“It is very important for scientists and scholars to get recognition, and the Hector Science Award has a very, very big meaning for me,” says Katrin Amunts. “The prize helps to make our research more visible and to continue it with new energy.”
Katrin Amunts and her research team have mapped the human brain on an unprecedented scale using extremely high-resolution and data-intensive methods. In doing so, the brain researcher also pioneered the interdisciplinary combination of neuroscience and supercomputing. The results of this research are united in a globally unique 3D brain atlas, which is openly accessible to scientists from all over the world.
Amunts is director of the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich and director at the C. and O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Since 2016, she is the scientific research director of the European Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP). In addition, she is a member of Program 2: “Natural, Artificial and Cognitive Information Processing” of the Research Field Information and spokesperson of Topic 5: “Decoding Brain Organization and Dysfunction”.
The complete press release (in german) can be found using the following link:
Katrin Amunts Receives Hector Science Award
Localization in the Helmholtz Research Field Information:
Helmholtz Research Field Information, Program 2: Natural, Artificial and Cognitive Information Processing, Topic 5: Decoding Brain Organization and Dysfunction
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Katrin Amunts
Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1)
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Phone: +49 2461/61-4300
E-Mail: k.amunts@fz-juelich.de
Contact for this press release:
Dr. Lisa Vincenz-Donnelly
Public Relations Officer
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Phone: +49 2461 61-9335
E-Mail: l.vincenz-donnelly@fz-juelich.de
