Curriculum
Curriculum vitae - Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Binkofski, MD
Section for Cognitive Neurology; at the Department of Neurology; RWTH
Aachen University
Year of Birth: 09 May 1962
Nationality: German
Education
1983 - 1990 Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf; National Hospital for
Nervous
Diseases, Queen Square, London, Studies of medicine
1984 - 1988 Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Studies of philosophy
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"
1998 Board examined neurologist
2001 Ph.D. (Habilitation): "Lesions and functional imaging studies of the
functional
anatomy of the parietal and premotor cortical areas" at the Faculty of
Medicine,
Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf
Professional career
1990-2001 Registrar and senior registrar, Department of Neurology, University
Hospital Düsseldorf
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).
1996 - 2002 Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Medicine, Research
Center Jülich
GmbH
1998 - 2001 Group leader for functional magnetic resonance tomography
research at
the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Düsseldorf
2002 - 2009 Senior Attendant and Lecturer, Department of Neurology,
University
Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck
2004 - 2009 University Professor for Neuroimaging at the University of
Luebeck
2010 - University professor for Cognitive Neurology and Director of the
Section for
Neurological Cognition Research at the Dept. of Neurology, RWTH Aachen