Lichtenberg Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neurophysiology
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Education/Degrees
| 1991 – 1998 | Undergraduate and graduate studies in Physics, Universities of Karlsruhe and Bonn |
| 1998 | MSc in Physics, University of Bonn |
| 2003 | PhD in Physics, University of Bonn |
| 1994 – 2001 | Medical School, Universities of Bonn and Cologne |
| 2004 | MD, University of Bonn |
| 2010 | Habilitation, University of Bonn |
Academic Career
| 1998 – 2003 | Research Fellow, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn |
| 2003 – 2006 | Head of Young Investigator Group, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn |
| 2006 – 2009 | Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology and UCLA |
| 2009 – 2012 | Principal Investigator at the Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn |
| Since 2013 | Lichtenberg Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn |
Awards and Honors
| 2002 | Young Investigator Award from the American Epilepsy Society |
| 2003 | BONFOR Research Grant provided by the intramural research fund of the University Medical Center Bonn |
| 2003 | Award of a ‘Summa cum laude’ for PhD thesis work |
| 2004 | Award of a ‘Summa cum laude’ for MD thesis work |
| 2005 | Young Investigator’s Award from the American Epilepsy Society |
| 2006 | Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship from the European Commission. |
| 2009 | Career Award for Medical Research, Ernst Jung Foundation for Science and Research (Hamburg, Germany) |
| 2012 | Lichtenberg Professor (W2) Grant from the Volkswagen Foundation |
Memberships, academic and professional functions:
* Member, German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging
Most important publications
- Mormann F, Kornblith SJ, Cerf M, Ison MJ, Kraskov A, Tran M, Knieling S, Quiroga RQ, Koch C, Fried I. Scene-selective coding by single neurons in the human parahippocampal cortex.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, in press.
- Mormann F, Niediek J, Tudusciuc O, Quesada CM, Coenen VA, Elger CE, Adolphs R. (2015) Neurons in the human amygdala encode face identity but not gaze direction. Nat. Neurosci.,18: 1568-1570.
- Quiroga RQ, Kraskov A, Mormann F, Koch C, Fried I. (2014) Single-cell responses to face adaptation in the human medial temporal lobe. Neuron, 84: 363-369.
- Kreuz T, Chicharro D, Houghton C, Andrzejak RG, Mormann F. (2013) Monitoring spike train synchrony. J. Neurophysiol., 109: 1457-1472.
- Mormann F, Dubois J, Kornblith S, Milosavljevic M, Cerf M, Ison M, Tsuchiya N, Kraskov A, Quiroga RQ, Adolphs R, Fried I, Koch C. (2011) A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala. Nat. Neurosci., 14: 1247-1249.
- Cerf M, Thiruvengadam N, Mormann F, Kraskov A, Quiroga RQ, Koch C, Fried I. (2010) Online, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons. Nature, 467: 1104-1108.
- Mormann F, Kornblith S, Quiroga RQ, Kraskov A, Cerf M, Fried I, Koch C. (2008) Latency and selectivity of single neurons indicate hierarchical processing in the human medial temporal lobe. J. Neurosci., 28: 8865-8872.
- Mormann F, Andrzejak RG, Elger CE, Lehnertz K. (2007) Seizure prediction: the long and winding road. Brain, 130: 314-333.
- Mormann F, Kreuz T, Rieke C, Andrzejak RG, Kraskov A, David P, Elger CE, Lehnertz K. (2005) On the predictability of epileptic seizures. Clin. Neurophysiol., 116: 569-587.
- Mormann F, Lehnertz K, David P, Elger CE. (2000) Mean phase coherence as a measure for phase synchronization and its application to the EEG of epilepsy patients. Physica D, 144: 358-369.