| Wolfgang Teder-Sälejärvi | visual neuroscience | | | | Hans-Ulrich Wittchen (grad student) |
| Sebastian Musslick | cognitive control, mental effort, autonomous empirical research | | 2011 | 2013 | Thomas Goschke (research assistant), Clemens Kirschbaum (research assistant) |
| Sebastian Pannasch | Visual attention, eye movements, active vision | | 2000 | | Boris M. Velichkovsky (grad student) |
| Pouyan R. Fard | Computational Neuroscience | | | | Stefan Kiebel (grad student) |
| Florian Raible | | | | | Michael Brand (grad student) |
| Katharina Förster | social cognition, structural neuroimaging, affective disorders | | | | |
| James Peter Saenz | Membrane and lipid biology, synthetic biology, origin of life, geochemistry | | | | |
| Denise Dörfel | | | | | Clemens Kirschbaum (grad student) |
| Marc Timme | | | | | |
| Jennifer E Washco | | | | | |
| Leandro L. Di Stasi | | | | | Boris M. Velichkovsky (grad student) |
| Philipp Kanske | emotion, attention, EEG, fMRI, affective disorders, depression, bipolar disorder | | | | |
| Boris M. Velichkovsky | Psychology of attention | | | | |
| Stephan Nebe | reinforcement learning, value-based decision making, habit, goal-directed behavior | | | | |
| Christine Winter | | | | | |
| Michael Brand | | | | | |
| Thomas Goetz | psychiatric genetics, electrophysiology | | | | |
| Paula Santos-Otte | | Biophysics | 2016 | 2017 | Stuart Maudsley (grad student) |
| Zohreh Hosseinzadeh | | | | | |
| Caghan Kizil | neuroscience, regeneration, zebrafish, stem cell | | | | |
| Rupert Overall | Systems biology, genetics, neuroscience, bioinformatics | | | | |
| Shervin Safavi | | | | | |
| Hans-Ulrich Wittchen | Clinical Psychology, biofeedback | | | | |
| Ursula M. Staudinger | potential of lifelong development (resilience and plasticity); the development of life insight, conduct of life, wisdom across the lifespan as well as inter-generational relationships | | | | |
| Nadine Skoluda | | Neuroscience | | | Clemens Kirschbaum (grad student) |
| Andrey Nikolaevitch Enyashin | Computational Chemistry, Physical Chemistry | Physikalische Chemie | 2004 | 2013 | Gotthard Seifert (post-doc) |
| Viktoria Valerievna Ivanovskaya | | Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie | 2003 | 2006 | Gotthard Seifert (post-doc) |
| Nils B Kroemer | reward, fMRI, vigor, obesity, addiction | Psychiatry & Psychotherapy | 2010 | 2013 | Michael Smolka (grad student) |
| Michael Smolka | | | | | |
| Veronika Engert | Mental health, Social stress | Psychology | | | Tania Singer (post-doc) |
| Clemens Kirschbaum | biological psychology: stress | | | | |
| Sirko Rabe | | Psychology | 2001 | 2005 | Anke Karl (grad student) |
| Thomas Goschke | Volition and control | | | | |
| Stefan Kiebel | Neuroimaging, Computational Neuroscience | | | | |
| Yacila I. Deza-Araujo | | System Neurosciences | 2014 | 2018 | Michael Smolka (grad student) |