Niels Birbaumer

Niels Birbaumer was born in 1945. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1969, in biological psychology, art history, and statistics, from the University of Vienna, Austria. From 1975 to 1993, he was a Full Professor of clinical and physiological psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany. From 1986 to 1988, he was a Full Professor of psychology, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Since 1993, he has been a Professor of medical psychology and behavioral neurobiology at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tübingen, and Professor of clinical psychophysiology, University of Padova, Italy. Since 2002, he has been the Director of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Trento, Italy.

Biography Updated on 22 September 2004