Christian Doeller studied psychology at the Universities of Würzburg, Berlin (Humboldt), and Bonn, as well as computer science in Bonn. In 2005, he completed his PhD in psychology about studies on the neuroscientific foundations of learning at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. From 2004 to 2010, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology/Institute of Neurology at University College London (from 2006 as Senior Research Fellow). In 2010, he was appointed Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Since 2016, he has been a Professor of Medicine (Neuroscience) at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, and has directed the Braathen-Kavli Centre there from 2017 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been the Director of the Department of Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. In 2019, he was appointed as Professor of Psychology at Leipzig University. Since 2023 he is Honorary Professor for Cognitive Neuroscience at TU Dresden and Vice President of the Max Planck Society. With his research team, Doeller aims to answer fundamental questions in cognitive neuroscience: What are the key coding principles of the brain enabling human thinking?