Facts and numbers

Umbrella organization: Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (www.mpg.de/en)

Founding dates of the institute: 1917 (German Institute for Psychiatric Research (DFA)); 1954 (Experimental Department of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry); 1998 (Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology)

At the Campus Martinsried: since 1984

Staff: about 250

Represented nations: 22

Language at the institute: Englisch

Instite management: Board of directors, management rotation for the position of Managing Director with a change every three years.

Budget: 12,85 million Euro from the Max Planck Society; additional 2,9 million Euro from third-party funding

Departments: 6

Max Planck Research Groups: 3

Independent Research Groups: 2

Emeritus Groups: 4

Numbers as of October 2011