Jakob Simmank
Jakob Simmank, born in 1988, studied medicine in Hamburg, Leipzig and Buenos Aires between 2008 and 2016. Short break from medicine: studied moral theories and cognitive psychology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2011/12. Between 2011 and 2016: doctoral thesis on decision-making processes in overweight people at the Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience. In between: writing, writing, writing. Stations at the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” and the magazine ZEIT Wissen. Head of since deparment of Die Zeit since April 2021.
