David Poeppel
David Poeppel (born 1964 in Freiburg, West Germany) is Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University (NYU). Since 2014, he is also the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA). In 2019, he co-founded the Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME) an international joint research center, co-sponsored by the Max Planck Society and New York University. Since 2021, he is the Managing Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute Biography. He grew up in Munich, Germany, Cambridge MA, USA and Caracas, Venezuela. Poeppel received his "Abitur