Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Ferdinand Binkofski

 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
1983–1990	Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU) Düsseldorf, Study of Medicine
1984–1988	Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU) Düsseldorf, Study of Philosophy
1989	Institute of Neurology London (Ian McDonald)
1986–1990	Research assistant at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Düsseldorf
1990–1993	Thesis “Neurophysiological studies of spatial and temporal organization of hand and arm movements in healthy subjects and patients with focal brain lesions”
1990–1998	Training in clinical neurology at the Department of Neurology, HHU Düsseldorf
October 1998	Board examined neurologist
1994–1997	Employed by the European Science Foundation in the cooperative project “Cortical control of arm movements” between the Department of Neurology, Univ.-Hosp. Düsseldorf (Prof. H.J. Freund), Inserm U 534, Bron (Prof. M. Jeannerod) and Institute for Human Physiology, Parma (Rizzolatti).
1995	Antonio Borselino College on Neurophysics – International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) – Trieste
1996–1/2002	Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Medicine, Research Center Jülich GmbH
1998–1/2002	Group leader for functional magnetic resonance tomography research at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Düsseldorf
1998–1/2002	Attendant in Neurology, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Düsseldorf
December 2001	Habilitation “Lesions and functional imaging studies of the functional anatomy of the parietal and premotor cortical areas” at the Faculty of Medicine, HHU Düsseldorf
Since February 2001	Consultant of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck
Since October 2002	Principal Investigator for Sensorimotor integration at the Neuroimaging Center NeuroImage Nord in Hamburg
Since December 2004	University Professor for Neuroimaging at the University of Luebeck

 

MAJOR PEER REVIEWED GRANTS
2003–2008	Grant by Volkswagenstiftung “Adaptability of the movement observation/movement recognition system” (I/79006)
2002–2005	German Research Council (DFG) Grant
2003–2005	Leader of the section “Action perception/action execution” in the Special Research Area “Brain, Glucose and Behavior” at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lübeck.
2006–2009	Leader of the project A2 (together with Matthias Nitschke and Karsten Witt) „Impact of REM sleep and Slow Wave Sleep on motor and associative sensorimotor learning – an fMRI approach” in the Special Research Area of the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Plasticity and Sleep”
2002–2008	BMBF (01GO0207) Neuroimaging Center Neuroimage Nord, Section Luebeck
2006-2008	Leader of the cooperation project BMBF (01GW0571) “Deconstructing apraxia”

 

GRANT REVIEWS FOR
	German Research Council (DFG), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC), Leverhulme Trust London, Stroke Association UK, Welcome Trust

 

JOURNAL REVIEW FOR

Science, Current Biology, Brain, Stroke, Neurology, Annals of Neurology, European Journal of Neurology, Human Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Neuroimage, European Journal of Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurocase, Experimental Brain Research, Cognitive Brain Research, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Brain and Language, Cortex, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Nervenarzt, Journal of Neuroimaging, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

 

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS
	Neuroimage – guest editor

 

AWARDS
	Annual Award of the International Institute for Advanced Studies, Baden-Baden 1996 Poster Price DGN, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2x2006