Petra Ritter

Petra Ritter is a leading expert in the field of personalized brain simulations. Her research focus is on integrating health data and complex mathematical models to discover mechanisms of brain function and dysfunction. She serves as lead of large EU digital health infrastructure projects such as EOSC Virtual Brain Cloud, eBRAIN-Health, Testing and Experimentation Facility Health AI and Robotics (TEF-Health) and EBRAINS Health Data Cloud with a total funding volume of around 100 million Euros serving the goal to enable privacy preserving collaborative research on digital human twins. Petra Ritter studied medicine at the Charite, with internships at UCSD, UCLA, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, and Harvard Medical School. She has been appointed as a Johanna Quandt lifetime Professor for Brain Simulation in 2017 and since then serves as the Director of the Brain Simulation Section at the Berlin Institute of Health and Dept. of Neurology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.