A women with short light brown to blonde hair in front of a grey wall. The portrait shows her face and body just until the mid of her upper arms. She is wearing a button down striped shirt in blue with and is slighty smiling without her teeth showing.
© Anne Felsenheimer

University College London & Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Anne Felsenheimer

  • Berlin Science Week
  • 2025
  • Speaker

"Als Clinical Scientist an der Max Planck School of Cognition untersuche ich die Interaktion von Körper und Wahrnehmung. Als erste Studierende der Familie dachte ich lange Zeit, dass ich lediglich meinen fehlenden akademischen Hintergrund aufholen müsste – und erkannte daher erst nach meinem Studium der Medizin, Psychologie und Philosophie, dass ich auch mein Geschlecht auszugleichen habe."

Anne Felsenheimer ist Doktorandin im Clinician Scientist Program der Max Planck School of Cognition. Ihre Forschung widmet sich Sprache, Kognition und psychischen Erkrankungen, insbesondere Ironie- und Metapherverstehen. Sie war u. a. Fulbright Scholar an der Vanderbilt University in den USA und verbindet Medizin, Psychologie und Philosophie in ihrer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit.

"As a clinical scientist at the Max Planck School of Cognition, I investigate the interaction of body and perception. As the first student in my family, I thought for a long time that I simply had to make up for my lack of academic background—and therefore only realized after studying medicine, psychology, and philosophy that I also had to balance my gender."

Anne Felsenheimer is a doctoral student in the Clinician Scientist Program at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Her research focuses on language, cognition, and mental illness, particularly irony and metaphor understanding. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at Vanderbilt University in the USA, among other places, and combines medicine, psychology, and philosophy in her academic work.

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