Michael Skeide completed his undergraduate studies at Heidelberg University and Harvard University, and then obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of Leipzig. For his postdoctoral research on dyslexia and dyscalculia, conducted in Leipzig and at Stanford University, he received a Habilitation degree from Humboldt University in Berlin. He is currently the head of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Skeide’s award-winning research is published in journals like Nature Reviews Neuroscience and Science Advances. His work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the Jacobs Foundation.
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