Dietmar Schmitz is Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Neuroscience Research Center at Charité and Spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure. Since 2011, he has been spokesperson of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin.

His research questions include how the central nervous system encodes experience and information in synapses and neuronal networks.

In close collaboration with clinical colleagues, he also focuses on the analysis of neuropsychiatric diseases.