Michael A. Nitsche MD

Michael A. Nitsche studied psychology and medicine at the Georg-August-University , Goettingen, Germany. From 1998 until 2015, he worked in the Dept. Clinical Neurophysiology of University Medicine in Goettingen, and together with Walter Paulus developed tDCS as non-invasive brain stimulation tool to induce plasticity in the human brain. Since 2015, he is Scientific Director at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at TU Dortmund, and Head of the Department of Psychology and Neurosciences. His main interest is the development, and improvement of non-invasive brain stimulation tools, exploration of the physiological foundations of cognition and behavior, and translation of these interventions to clinical application. He published approximately 300 articles in the field, and received various national and international grants supporting his research. He received the Richard Jung and Alois Kornmüller awards from the German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and functional Neuroimaging as recognition for his research, and is member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.