Hans-Jochen Heinze

Prof. Heinze holds degrees in both medicine and mathematics. In 1987, after completing his medical training in neurology, Hans-Jochen Heinze was awarded a two-year DFG fellowship at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego. Subsequently, he worked as a senior physician at the Hanover Medical School. Since 1993, he has been the chair of the Department of Neurology at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. In 2000, he was appointed as coordinator of the Center for Advanced Imaging Magdeburg-Bremen (BMBF). In 2005, he also became a director of the Department of Behavioral Neurology at the Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology in Magdeburg and a Fellow of the Max-Planck Group ‘Attention and Awareness’ in Leipzig. In 2009, Prof. Heinze was appointed as founding spokesman of the DZNE-Magdeburg (German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases within the Helmholtz Association, Magdeburg) and he became vice spokesman in 2012. From 2005 to 2011 Prof. Heinze was a member of the senate of the German Research Council (DFG) and, from 2009 to 2015, a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities. From 2010 to 2016, he was the head of the medical committee of the Council. Prof. Heinze is a member of the National Academy of Science (Leopoldina), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. His areas of research include the functional imaging of cognitive and emotional functions, especially with regard to visual attention, memory, and reward processing. In 2016 Prof. Heinze was awarded the Hans Berger Prize from the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN). In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine in Tübingen.