Born 1958, Study of Medicine in Freiburg; Doctorate M.D. (1984); Harvard University for one year; Resident at the University Munich (1986 bis 1992); Board Certification in Neurology (1992); Habilitation in Neurology (1994); Oberarzt (Consultant Physician) at the Department of Neurology at the Charité (1993 bis 1996); Vice Chairman at the Department of Neurology at the Charité (1996 bis 2004); C3 Professur of Neurologyat the Charité (1997 bis 2008); Clinical Supervisor of the 30-bed neurology clinic, Department of Neurology at the Charité (1999 bis 2004); Head of 53-bed neurology clinic, Department of Neurology at the Charité (2004 bis 2007); since 2007 Director, Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and Director of Clinic of Cognitive Neurology at the University Clinic Leipzig; since 1999 Coordinator of Competence Network Stroke; 2006 Foundation of Berlin School of Mind and Brain in the frame of Excellence Initiative; since 2006 speaker of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain; since 2008 Honorary Professor at Charité University Medicine Berlin; since 2009 Professor for Cognitive Neurology at the University of Leipzig. Since 2018 Spokesperson of the Max Plank School of Cognition and from 2022 to 2025 Section Chair of the Human Sciences Section of the Max Planck Society.