Petra Ritter heads the Brain Simulation Section at the Charité University Medicine Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health. Her research focus is on integrating multimodal health data in computational avatars of patients to discover complex mechanisms of healthy function and dysfunction. She serves in the leadership of large EU infrastructure projects such as the Testing and Experimentation Facility Health AI and Robotics (TEF-Health), European Open Science Cloud’s Virtual Brain Cloud und eBRAIN-Health and she is directing the Health Data
Cloud of EBRAINS -  a research infrastructure on the roadmap of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures. Petra Ritter studied medicine in Germany and in the US. She serves as the Director for International Affairs at the Charité and as spokesperson of the BIH Extended Directorate.