Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is a Max Planck Society institute in Tübingen, Germany, founded in 1968 from sensory-processing work associated with Werner Reichardt. It does not grant degrees. Doctoral candidates enroll at partner universities, chiefly the University of Tübingen, and do their research at the institute.

Work focuses on computational neuroscience, perception, action, computer vision, and machine learning, with labs for psychophysics, neuroimaging, and robotics. Training runs through International Max Planck Research Schools with the University of Tübingen.

Staff and students number a few hundred, many of them international doctoral researchers. Leadership is a small set of directors and group leaders. Alumni move into academic and industrial neuroscience.

The Ph.D. is a supervised thesis with IMPRS or university coursework and a funded contract. Students live in Tübingen, a university town on the Neckar, on a campus shared with other Max Planck and university neuroscience groups.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics lists 1 doctoral program, in biological engineering.