Hannah Monyer

What happens when a taste or a smell suddenly brings an entire past to light? In *In Search of Lost Time*, Marcel Proust describes memory not as a static archive, but as a malleable process. In doing so, he anticipates in literature what neuroscience is only now able to empirically confirm. Hannah Monyer connects Proust’s precise observations of memory with current findings in brain research and shows how literature and the natural sciences explore the same questions and, in surprising ways, arrive at similar conclusions.

Prof. Dr. Hannah Monyer is a physician, neurobiologist, and one of Germany’s most renowned brain researchers. She is a professor at Heidelberg University and heads the Department of Clinical Neurobiology at Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center. Her research focuses on the neural basis of learning, memory, and synaptic plasticity.