RÉSUMÉ

 

Personal Details

Name:  Marc Christoph Wittmann

Date of birth: September 29, 1966

Place of birth: München, Germany

 

 

 

Education

1994-1997

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany. Doctoral thesis on “The temporal organisation of perception and motor performance“ (magna cum laude). Degree of Dr. rer. biol. hum.

 

1990-1994

University of Fribourg, Department of Psychology, Switzerland. Graduate studies in experimental psychology, clinical psychology and philosophy. Degree of lic. phil. (magna cum laude), licentiatus thesis on “Psychological models of face perception“ (summa cum laude)

 

1993-1994

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Department of Psychology, Munich, Germany. One-year scholarship (Erasmus program) for studies in experimental psychology, clinical psychology and philosophy

 

 

 

Stipends and Awards

2004-2005

Postdoctoral Research Exchange Grant of the Max Kade Foundation New York for a one year research project in the USA.

 

June 1998

Peter-Jacobi-Award of the German Society for Medical Psychology for a young researcher in the field of “Psychology

in Neurology“

 

1996

Grant for a doctoral thesis from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich for the promotion of the scientific and

artistic young generation

 

1993-1994

Erasmus programme scholarship granted by the Commission of the European Community

 

 

 

Work Experience

2007-

Assistant Project Scientist, University of Caliornia San Diego, Department of Psychiatry.

 

2004-2007

Research Fellow, University of Caliornia San Diego, Department of Psychiatry. fMRI and behavioral studies on impulsivity and drug addiction.

 

2000-2004

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Human Science Center, Munich, Germany.

Head of the Generation Research Program in Bad Tölz. Basic Research and Technological Applications in Gerontology.

 

1999-2001

Project leader at Sciencia Ltd., Munich, Germany

Research for the Development of an Optimal Man-Automobile Interface for HONDA R&D, Japan.

 

1994-1999

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany.

Research fellow at the Institute of Medical Psychology

Advisor to medical students

 

1993-1999

Sciencia, Health Care Consulting, Munich, Germany

Consultant in the context of contract research in clinical studies on neuropsychological functioning

and health related quality of life

 

1993-1994

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany.

Research assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology in the field of neuropsychology

 

 

 

Teaching Position

2007

Neuroscience Bootcamp, Neuroscience Department, University of Caliornia San Diego

 

1999-2004
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany.

Lectures on “Language processing and language impairment”

 

1995-2004

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany

Seminars in “Medical Psychology“

 

2000

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany

Lecturer on “Psychological Tests” in the NerV-Program of the Munich-Harvard Alliance

 

1999-2000

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany

Seminar on “Neuropsychological Impairments: Fundamental and recent findings with imaging techniques”

(with Baales, Distel, Hudson, Mitzdorf)

 

1992-1993

University of Fribourg, Department of Psychology, Switzerland.

Tutor in statistics for undergraduate psychology students

 

1989

University of Shenzhen, Department of Foreign Languages, PR China.

English Teacher

 

 

 

Congress organisation

2003

Satellite Symposium of the Sixth International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society on „Time, Cognition, Thinking“ in Strzekecino, Poland (with Szelag, Pöppel)

 

2003

2nd Symposium of the Generation Research Program, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Bad Tölz

 

1997

Annual General Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS), Tutzing (with v. Steinbüchel, Steffen)

 

 

 

Raising of external funds

2007-2009

Paulus M, Wittmann M. “Time processing in stimulant users: Impulsivity and temporal discounting“ (1 R03 DA020687 01A1). National Institute of Health NIH/NIDA with $154.400.-

 

2007-2008

Paulus M, Wittmann M. „Disruption of the balance between self-control and impulsivity in stimulant users: How processing time in the brain affects decision making” sponsored by the KAVLI Institute for Brain and Mind at UCSD with $ 30.000.-

 

2003-2006

Wittmann M, Szelag E. „Temporal-information processing in aphasic patients: New horizons for aphasia therapy” as part of  the programme “Polish-German Cooperation in Neuroscience” sponsored by the German Ministery for Education and Research (BMBF) and the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) with € 252.344.-

 

2003-2005

Pöppel E, Wittmann M. „Quantifying temporal aspects of attention and working-memory processes” in: Modkog – new procedures of information processing on the basis of neurocognitive modeling sponsored by the German Ministery for Education and Research (BMBF) with € 259.344.-

 

2000-2002

Vollmer T, Wittmann M. “Time perception in subjective near death. A medical-psychology study of time perception in patients with cancer.” A 2-year project sponsored by the Else-Kröner-Fresenius foundation with DM 233.900.-.

 

 

 

Review work

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2000), Conciousness and Cognition (2000), Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie
(2001), University Grants Commitee Hongkong (2001), NeuroImage (2002), Neuroscience Letters (2003), Acta 
Neurobiologiae Experimentalis (2004), Perceptual and Motor Skills (2004), The Israel Science Foundation (2004), 
Zeitschrift für Psychologie (2005), Psychological Reports (2006, 2008), Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and
Economics (2007), Cognitive Neuropsychology (2007), Neurotoxicity Research (2007), Proceedings of the Institution of 
Mechanical Engineers, Part D, Journal of Automobile Engineering (2008), Biological Psychiatry (2008), Experimental Brain 
Research (2008)

 

 

Membership

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie (since 1998)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (since 2002)

Cognitive Neuroscience Society (since 2003)

Neuroscience Society (since 2007)