He has published widely in international journals on topics of memory formation, synaptic plasticity, neurodegeneration, and information processing in neuronal populations. He was the editor of Neuronal Mechanism of Memory Formation in 2001 that investigated processes of synaptic plasticity that might underlie memory formation. Matthias Munk is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and an assistant Professsor (Privatdozent) at the University of Darmstadt, Germany. He has conducted extensive research in the area of information processing in the visual cortex of primates, using electrophysiological, pharmacological and imaging techniques. He has published his research widely in a range of top scientific journals.