Leonhard Schilbach

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Leonhard Schilbach is the Head of the Clinic for Disorders of Social Interaction, Consultant Psychiatrist and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany as well as a consultant psychiatrist and lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany. His major research interests are social neuroscience where he uses experiments and other empirical approaches to explore how human beings understand and make sense of each other. For his research Schilbach has been awarded the Hans-Heimann-Prize from the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) and the Barbara-Wengeler-Prize.