Prof. Dr. Notger Müller

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Notger Müller studied medicine in Heidelberg, Tübingen and Berlin. He graduated (summa cum laude) in 1996 in the lab of Prof. Axel Mecklinger, Department of Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin on the topic "Electrophysiological correlates of spatial and object memory". From 1997 to 1998, he conducted research at the University of California in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Knight on the influence of brain injury on the visual working memory. This was followed by two years of medical and scientific work at the day hospital of Cognitive Neurology at the University Hospital of Leipzig, which at that time was headed by Prof. Yves von Cramon. In 2000, he moved to the Department of Neurology at the Charité in Berlin, where he became acquainted with functional MRI imaging in the clinical research group of Prof. Arno Villringer ("New methods for non-invasive diagnosis of CNS function"). From 2002 to 2008 he worked at the Department of Neurology of University Hospital of Frankfurt (Main). There,in 2005, he took over the lead of the reseach group Cognitive Neurology fromProf. Andreas Kleinschmidt and was crucially involved in setting up the Brain Imaging Center. In addition, he also headed the memory consultation at the hospital and most recently also the Neurological Clinic. In 2006, he habilitated on the topic "Attention Beyond The Spotlight Metaphor: Neurophysiological Evidence for a Center-Surround Zoom Lens Model for Visuospatial Selection” and he passed the certification examination for neurologists in the same year. He then joined the University Hospital of Neurology in Magdeburg, where he became head of the department "Dementia" in 2008. Since 2009, he also heads the group on neuroprotection of the DZNE site in Magdeburg.

The focus of his research is currently on the early diagnosis and prevention of dementia. A wide spectrum of modern imaging techniques are used, while the emphasis remains on the functional MR imaging with the aim to develop experimental paradigms that indicate a pathological brain development in early dementia. In addition, Müller continues his earlier research on how attention and memory affects our perceptions.

Prof. Dr. Müller is a reviewer for numerous international journals, for the German Research Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, where he is a former fellow. He is a member of the Neuroscience Society, the German Neurological Society and the Society for Neuroscience.