David Poeppel

DP is a Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU since 2009 and a Max Planck Director from 2014-2025. Trained at MIT in cognitive science, linguistics, and neuroscience, Poeppel did his post-doctoral training at the University of California San Francisco where he focused on functional brain imaging. Until 2008, he was a professor at the University of Maryland College Park, where he ran the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language laboratory. From 2014-2021, he was the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. From 2021-2024, he was the CEO of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Frankfurt. He has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and The American Academy Berlin, and a guest professor at many institutions. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Leopoldina.