Professor Dr. med. 

Director of the Clinic for Cognitive Neurology

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences 

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Leipzig, Germany

Mind&Brain Institute, Charité and Humboldt-Unversity, Berlin, Germany

email: villringer@cbs.mpg.de

• 2008- Director, Mind&Brain Institute, Humboldt-University and Charité, Berlin
• 2007 – Director at MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 
• 2007 – Director, Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, and Professor of Cognitive Neurology (since 08), University Hospital, Leipzig
• 2006 – Speaker, ‘Berlin School of Mind and Brain“ (German Excellence Initiative)
• 2005 – 2009 Editor, Neuroimage
• 2004 – 2007 Head of Dept Neurology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité
• 2002 – 2007 Coordinator, Berlin NeuroImaging Center (BNIC)
• 2001 – 2008 Board of Directors, German Stroke Society
• 1999 – Coordinator of German Competence Network Stroke
• 1999 – 2004 Chief Clinician, Dept. Neurology, Campus Virchow, Charité 
• Since 1996 Professor of Neurology, (Charité, Humboldt-University, Berlin)
• 1996 – 2007 Deputy Director, Dept. Neurology, Charité
• 1994 Habilitation, Neurology
• 1993 – 1999 Consultant (Oberarzt), Dept. Neurology, Charité
• 1992 Board Exam, Neurology
• 1986 – 1993 Resident of Neurology and Psychiatry (1989), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• 1985 DFG Stipend at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (NMR-Unit: Bruce Rosen, Tom Brady)
• 1984 Medical Doctorate (Prof. Dr. Peter C. Heinrich) Molecular Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (’summa cum laude’) 
• 1977 – 1984 Studies in Medicine Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg 

Research fields:

• Physiological basis of noninvasive neuroimaging 
• Sensorimotor brain plasticity
• Cognition, behavior, and brain plasticity in subjects with vascular risk factors