Hans-Peter Mueller is a senior scientist in the Department of Neurology at Ulm University, Germany, in the Neuroimaging Group. He studied Theoretical Physics from 1987-1992 at the University of Ulm. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Ulm in 1996. During 1996-1998 he was a post-doc at the Department for Cardiology of the Free University of Berlin with the topic Magnetocardiography. During 1998-2005, he was a Senior Scientist at the Central Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Ulm. Since 2005, he has worked at the Department of Neurology at Ulm with the research topics Diffusion Tensor Imaging and resting-state connectivity MRI in men and rodents. In 2013 he received the venia legendi for Experimental Neurology, University of Ulm. His main research topics are the development of strategies and algorithms for cross-sectional and longitudinal (single-center and multicenter) DTI and resting-state studies at the group level.
Albert C. Ludolph is the Professor of Neurology and Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital and Medical Faculty of Ulm. He has established and led the ALS-Centre at the University Hospital of Ulm and directs a multidisciplinary team for ALS care clinical and experimental research. He received his early education studying medicine in the cities of Göttingen and Mainz between 1973 and 1979. In 1984, he completed a specialization in neurology and also did courses in psychiatry at the University of Münster. He became the senior physician of the neurology department at the University of Munster in 1987. In 1992, he was elected as the senior physician of the epileptology department at the University of Bonn. In 1993, he was the leading physician at Humboldt University in the department of neurology. In 1996, he was chosen as the head of the neurology unit at Ulm University in Germany. His research focuses on models for ALS, both naturally occurring and animal models, clinical genetics, development of clinical care, and translational research including the development of new drugs for ALS and other orphan neurological diseases.
Ambros Beer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Ulm University Hospital in Ulm, Germany since 2014. He graduated from medical school at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in 1999 and completed his PhD thesis in the same year at the Institute for Radiation Biology. He then undertook specialist clinical training in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) at Munich and completed his board exams in Radiology in 2006 and Nuclear Medicine in 2009. Since 2007 he has been an assistant professor for nuclear medicine at the Department of Nuclear Medicine at TUM and worked there as a consultant from 2009–2014. In 2014 he moved to Ulm as chair and director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Ulm University. His main research area is multimodality imaging for the non-invasive characterization of tissue biology by multiparametric imaging, with the aim of improving non-invasive evaluation of disease characteristics in oncology, neurology, or inflammatory diseases.
Nico Sollmann is a Resident at the Department of Neuroradiology Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. He earned his Doctor of Medicine at the Department of Neurosurgery Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany in 2015. He was awarded the Best Young Research Award at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neuroradiology (DGNR) in 2018. He is a member of the German Society of Neuroradiology, the German Society of Neurosurgery, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. He has authored over 213 publications with total citations of 3117 and an h-index of 31 (Scopus).
Jan Kassubek is the Vice Chairman and head of the Neurophysiology section, as well as the Head of the Outpatient Clinic for Movement Disorders and the Group for Neuroimaging at the Department of Neurology, University of Ulm in Germany. He is also the co-chair of the Core Facility 3T MRI for Neuroscientific Research. From 1988-1995 he studied Human Medicine at the University of Essen (Germany) and consequently defended his MD thesis in 1997 at the University. He was board-certified in Neurology in 2003 and attained his habilitation (Venia Legendi) at the University of Ulm in 2004. He received his Medical doctorate degree in 1996 at the University of Erlangen (Germany) after which he took on a research position at the University of Minnesota (USA). Back in Germany in 1997, he worked at the University of Freiburg and consequently at the University of Ulm as a medical doctor before taking on a senior position at the University of Ulm in 2003. He is a member of the German Society for Neurology DGN, the German Society for Parkinson´s Disease DPG, the German Society for Muscular Diseases DGM, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, and the European Neurological Society.
