The scientific study of thinking requires expertise from a wide range of scientific fields, including evolutionary biology and anthropology, neuroscience and neuroinformatics, developmental and experimental psychology, cognitive linguistics, and philosophy. In the foundation’s faculty, all the disciplines pertinent to the study of thinking are represented by leading scientists in their respective field.

Former and present members of our faculty:

• Prof. Dr. Harald Atmanspacher, Theoretical Physics, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Evan Balaban, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurosciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

• Prof. Dr. Peter Bandettini, Neuroscience, Biophysics, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda

• Prof. Dr. Yan Bao, Psychology, Department of Psychology, Peking University

• Prof. Dr. Niels Birbaumer, Medical Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany; University of Trento, Italy

• Prof. Dr. Per Aage Brandt, Cognitive Semiotics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, US

• Prof. Dr. Michael von Brück, Religious Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Lin Chen, Cognitive Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

• Seán Cleary, Corporate Strategy, Development Economics, LEAD International, UK; Parmenides Foundation, Poecking, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fikentscher †, Anthropology of Law, Economics, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Dedre Gentner, Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

• Dr. Vinod Goel, Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada

• Prof. Dr. Benedikt Grothe, Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Balász Gulyás, Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

• Prof. Dr. Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Giorgio Innocenti †, Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

• Prof. Dr. Eva Jablonka, Genetics, Theoretical Biology – Tel Aviv University, Israel

• Prof. Dr. Oliver Jahraus, Modern German Literature, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Sean Dorrance Kelly, Philosophy, Havard University, US

• Prof. Dr. Martin Kemp, History of Art, University of Oxford, UK

• Prof. Dr. Günter von Kiedrowski, Bioorganic Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Guenther Knoblich, Social Cognitive Neuroscience, CEU; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

• Prof. Dr. Imre Kondor, Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest

• Prof. Dr. Georg Kreutzberg †, Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany

• Prof. Dr. George Lakoff, Cognitive Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, US

• Prof. Dr. Nikos Logothetis, Neurobiology, Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Yoshihiro Miyake, Computational Intelligence, Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

• Prof. Dr. Ulises C. Moulines, Philosophy of Science, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Albrecht von Müller, Philosophy, Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking, Poecking/Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin, Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Rafael Núñez, Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, US

• Prof. Dr. John P. O'Doherty, Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, US

• Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel, Medical Psychology, Parmenides Center for Art & Science, Poecking/Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter, Neuroinformatics, University of Bielefeld, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Wulf Schiefenhövel, Human Ethology, Medical Psychology
  Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Andechs, Germany, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter, economics - research scientist

• Prof. Dr. Olaf Sporns, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, US

• Prof. Dr. med. Michael Strupp, Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, University Hospital, Campus Grosshadern, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Eörs Szathmáry, Evolutionary Biology, Eötvös University Budapest, Hungary

• Prof. Dr. Oliver Trapp, Department of Chemistry, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl, Philosophy
  Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

• Prof. Dr. Semir Zeki, Neurobiology
  University College London, UK