In the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences GSN-LMU, groups of researchers working in different areas of neuroscience seek answers to one of the most fundamental questions in modern science: How does the brain work? The GSN-LMU is embedded into the Munich Center for Neurosciences – Brain & Mind, one of the broadest academic environments that Munich has to offer in the field of neurosciences. This neuroscientific context provides a combination of the most varied methodological approaches in biology, computational neuroscience, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, scientific theory and neurophilosophy, opening up greater capacity for new questions, innovative approaches and concepts. Internationally recruited graduates at the GSN-LMU benefit from the individual and interdisciplinary mentoring of leading researchers from different fields of neuroscience and profit from Munich’s exceptionally diverse academic environment. All this allows them to develop even beyond their specific professional qualifications. The GSN-LMU has been established within the scope of the Excellence Initiative, a Germany-wide competition to promote top-level university research.