Meyer-Lindenberg was born in
Bonn. He studied
medicine in Bonn and at
Cornell University in New York, and mathematics at the
Fernuniversität Hagen. He has been a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn since 1984. He is the grandson of the diplomat
Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg and the great-grandson of the left-liberal politician Oscar Meyer and the philatelist Carl Lindenberg. His medical and scientific work took him via Bonn and Giessen, where he was trained as a neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, to the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda (Maryland). In 2007, he succeeded Fritz Henn as director of the Central Institute of Mental Health, medical director of the clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy there and full professor for psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the
University of Heidelberg. The scientific focus of Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg's work is on researching risk and protective mechanisms in serious mental illnesses such as
schizophrenia and
depression using imaging, genetic and environmental methods. As a "highly cited researcher" he has been regularly identified as one of the most cited scientists in his field. In 2009 he was elected a member of the
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, in 2011 a full member of the
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and in 2022 a member of the
Academia Europaea. Meyer-Lindenberg is a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards, including Brain Mind Institute – Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Lausanne, Robert-Sommer Award for Schizophrenia Research, Research Priority Program on "Foundation of Human Social Behavior" –
University of Zurich, The Loop Zurich – Medical Research Center,
Endosane Pharmaceuticals, Neurotorium and The Brain Prize and a member of the board of several professional societies such as the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN). Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg is site spokesperson at the German Center for Mental Health and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience Applied as part of the
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Executive Committee (2022–2025). == Honors and awards ==