personal Homepage Dr. Dr. Florian Mormann
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Florian Mormann, MD, PhD, MSc Research Fellow Clinical Resident Dept. of Epileptology University of Bonn Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25 53105 Bonn Germany
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Currently Senior Postdoctoral Scholar at: California Institute of Technology |
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
| 1979 -1991 |
Elementary and Secondary School in Germany and Michigan, USA |
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| June 1989 |
U.S. High School Diploma |
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| April 1991 |
German High School Graduation (Abitur) |
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| 1991 - 1998 |
Study of Physics, Universities of Karlsruhe and Bonn, Germany |
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| Nov. 1998 |
M.Sc. in Physics |
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| March 2003 |
Ph.D. in Physics (summa cum laude) |
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| 1994 - 2001 |
Medical School, Universities of Bonn and Cologne, Germany |
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| 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 |
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| July 2003 - Sept. 2004 |
Resident Physician, Dept. of Epileptology, |
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| Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2005 |
Resident Physician, Dept. of Psychiatry, |
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| Oct. 2005 - Aug. 2006 |
Resident Physician, Dept. of Epileptology, |
Scientific Appointments
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Nov. 1998 |
Research Fellow at the Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany |
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July 2001 Aug. 2006 |
Researcher in the project Nonlinear analysis of electric potentials and magnetic fields in the epileptic brain of the Transregio Federal Research Grant SFB-TR3 Medial temporal lobe epilepsies |
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July 2003 |
Head of the Young Investigator Research Group Characterization |
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Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology (Advisor: Christof Koch) |
Grants and Awards
| 2001 | Travel Fellowship of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society | |
| 2002 | Young Investigator's Award of the American Epilepsy Society | |
| 2003 | Research Grant provided by the intramural research fund of the University Medical Center Bonn. Title "Characterization of intra- and interhemispheric spatiotemporal Interactions in the human limbic system" | |
| 2005 | Travel Fellowship of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society | |
| 2005 | Young Investigator's Award of the American Epilepsy Society | |
| 2006 | Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission. Title "Invariant neurons for visual representation in the human medial temporal lobe: A generalized version of rodent place cells?" |
Ad hoc Reviewer
- Biological Cybernetics
- Biological Psychology
- Brain
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Epilepsia
- Epilepsy Research
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- Europhysics Letters
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Journal of Computational Neuroscience
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Journal of Neuroscience Methods
- Mathematical Reviews
- Medical Science Monitor
- Neuroimage
- Physical Review E
- Physics Letters A
- PLoS Biology
- Scholarpedia
