Curriculum Vitae

Florian Mormann, M.D., Ph.D.


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

Phone: 1-626-395-8962
    Fax: 1-626-796-8876
E-Mail: florian @ klab.caltech.edu



Education






1991 - 1998
Study of Physics, Universities of Karlsruhe and Bonn, Germany

Nov. 1998
M.S. 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)





Scientific Appointments






Since Aug. 2009
Principal Investigator at the University of Bonn, Dept. of  Epileptology

Aug. 2006 - July 2009
Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology (Christof Koch) and the University of California Los Angeles, Division of Neurosurgery (Itzhak Fried)
Project: Invariant neurons for visual representation in the human medial temporal lobe: A generalized version of rodent place cells?

July 2003 - Aug. 2006
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
Head of the Young Investigator Group Characterization of intra- and interhemispheric spatiotemporal Interactions in the human limbic system

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

Nov. 1998 - Aug. 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





Clinical Appointments






Oct. 2005 - Aug. 2006
Residency, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany

Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2005
Residency, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany

July 2003 - Sept. 2004
Residency, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany

Jan. 2002 - July 2003
Internship, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany





Honors and Awards






2009
Career Award for Medical Research
Ernst Jung Foundation for Science and Research (Hamburg, Germany)

2006
Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship
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?"

2006

EEG Certificate from the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology

2005

Young Investigator's Award from the American Epilepsy Society

2005

Travel Fellowship from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society

2005

Fellowship for the 13th Annual Scientific Forum of the National EpiFellows Foundation

2003

BONFOR 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"

2002

Young Investigator's Award from the American Epilepsy Society 

2001

Travel Fellowship from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society





Ad hoc Reviewer






Biological Cybernetics



Biological Psychology



Brain


Clinical Neurophysiology

Consciousness and Cognition



Epilepsia



Epilepsy Research



European Journal of Neuroscience

Europhysics Letters



IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering


Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology



Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience



Journal of Computational Neuroscience


Journal of Neurophysiology


Journal of Neuroscience



Journal of Neuroscience Methods



Mathematical Reviews



Medical Science Monitor


NeuroImage



Physica D



Physical Review E



Physical Review Letters



Physics Letters A



PLoS Biology



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