Ulrich Ettinger studied psychology at Goldsmiths College and neuroscience at King’s College London. He was awarded his PhD in psychology on studies of eye movements in the schizophrenia spectrum in 2003. After a postdoctoral research fellowship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 2003/2004, he worked as Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at King’s College London before returning to his native Germany for an Emmy Noether group leadership position at the University of Munich in 2009, where he also completed his Habilitation in 2011. In 2012 he took up a Professorship in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bonn.