Angela D. Friederici is a cognitive neuroscientist in the domain of language. She is director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany and the Founding director of this institution founded in 1994. She graduated in linguistics and psychology at the University of Bonn (Germany) and spent a postdoctoral year at MIT (USA). She was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen (NL), at the University Rene Descartes, Paris (F) and University of California, San Diego (USA). Prior to joining the Max Planck Society as a director, she was professor for Cognitive Sciences at the Free University Berlin. Friederici is honorary professor at the University of Leipzig (Psychology), the University of Potsdam(Linguistics) and the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Neurology) and she holds a Doctor honoris causa from the University of Mons, Belgium. Between 2014 and 2020 she was Vice President for the Human Sciences Section of the Max Planck Society. Her main field of research is the neurobiology of language. She published about 500 scientific papers on this topic in major international journals. She received a number of scientific awards: 1987 Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, 1990 Alfried Krupp Award of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Stiftung, 1997 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, and 2011 Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal of the Brunswick Scientific Society. She is member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, member of the national German Academy of Sciences 'Leopoldina' and member of the Academia Europaea.