Angela D. Friederici is a cognitive neuroscientist known for her groundbreaking work on the neural basis of language processing, in particular syntax. She is founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and Honorary Professor at the Universities of Leipzig and Potsdam. Friederici studied linguistics, psychology and neuroscience and worked at major scientific institutions in the USA, the Netherlands and Germany. She has published extensively and authored the book Language in Our Brain (2017). Her work has earned her major national and international awards like the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Huttenlocher Award and the William James Fellow Award.