Hannah Monyer

Hannah Monyer (born 3 October 1957 in Laslea, Romania) is a Romanian-born (Transylvanian Saxon) German neurobiologist and, since 1999, she has been Director of the Department of Clinical Neurology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg. In 2004 she was awarded the 1.55 million euro Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. She received the Philip Morris Research Prize—described by Bio-pro as "one of the most prestigious science awards in Germany"—in 2006. In 2010, the European Research Council awarded her a total of 1.87 million euros for her research.

Her research has examined the composition of NMDA receptors and their expression patterns in brain cell populations. and a member of the Senate of the Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen ( "German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases".)

After receiving her MD in 1983, Monyer did postdoctoral work at Stanford University Medical Centre.