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Florian Mormann,
MD, PhD

Dept. of Epileptology
University of Bonn
Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25
53105 Bonn
Germany

Visiting Researcher at the

California Institute of Technology
Division of Biology 216-76
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Research Interests

Neurobiology of perception and memory
Single-neuron activity and local field potentials from micro-electrode recordings in humans
Neuronal representation of abstract concepts
Brain rhythms and their interaction
Mechanisms of seizure generation and seizure prediction from EEG time series
Linear and nonlinear time series analysis
Neural basis of consciousness

Education
1991 - 1998		Study of Physics, Universities of Karlsruhe and Bonn, Germany
Nov. 1998		M.Sc. in Physics
March 2003		Ph.D. in Physics (summa cum laude)

1994 - 2001		Medical School, Universities of Bonn and Cologne, Germany
Nov. 2001		Graduation from Medical School
June 2004		M.D. in Medicine (summa cum laude)

Clinical Appointments

2002 - 2003		Internship, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
July 2003 - Sept. 2004		Residency, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2005		Residency, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany
Oct. 2005 - Aug. 2006		Residency, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany

Scientific Appointments

1998 - 2006		Research Fellow in the Neurophysics Group at the University of Bonn, Dept. of Epileptology (Klaus Lehnertz & Christian Elger) Project: Nonlinear analysis of electric potentials and magnetic fields in the epileptic brain of the Transregio Federal Research Grant Medial temporal lobe epilepsies

2004 - 2006		Research Fellow in the Cognitive Neurophysiology Group at the Univ. of Bonn, Dept. of Epileptology (Jürgen Fell & Guillen Fernández); Project: When neurons form memories: The role of oscillatory dynamics and synchronization, Volkswagen-Foundation

2003 - 2006		Head of the Young Investigator Research Group Characterization of intra- and interhemispheric spatiotemporal interactions in the human limbic system

2006- 2009		Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Computation & Neural Systems and UCLA, Division of Neurosurgery (Christof Koch & Itzhak Fried); Project: Invariant neurons for visual representation in the human medial temporal lobe: A generalized version of rodent place cells?
Since 2009		Principal Investigator at the University of Bonn, Dept. of Epileptology

Grants and Awards

2001		Travel Fellowship from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
2002		Young Investigator's Award from the American Epilepsy Society
2003		BONFOR Research Grant provided by the intramural research fund of the University Medical Center Bonn
2005		Travel Fellowship from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society
2005		Young Investigator's Award from the American Epilepsy Society
2006		Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission
2009		Career Award for Medical Research Ernst Jung Foundation for Science and Research (Hamburg, Germany)

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