Professor Friedhelm Christoph Hummel
Friedhelm Hummel in 2016
Born	1969 (age 54–55) Laichingen, Germany
Citizenship	Germany
Known for	Neurorehabilitation
Awards	Felgenhauer Symposiums Prize Prize of the German Society of Neurotraumatology and Clinical Neurorehabilitation Dr. Martini Prize
Academic background
Education	Medicine
Alma mater	University of Tübingen University of Bordeaux
Thesis	Elastische Veränderungen durch semantische klassische Konditionierung und ihre elektrokortikalen Korrelate: eine Studie langsamer Potentiale (2000)
Academic advisors	Niels Birbaumer
Academic work
Discipline	Neuroscience
Sub-discipline	Neurorehabilitation
Institutions	EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Main interests	Stroke recovery Motor control Neuroplasticity Non-invasive brain stimulation Structural and functional neuroimaging
Website	https://www.epfl.ch/labs/hummel-lab/

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel (born 1969 in Laichingen, Germany) is a German neuroscientist and neurologist. A full professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, he is the Defitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, and the head of the Hummel Laboratory at EPFL's School of Life Sciences. ^{[1] [2]} He also is an associate professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Geneva. ^[3]

Career

Hummel studied medicine at University of Tübingen and at Bordeaux Segalen University, graduating in 1998. He then joined the Department of Neurology at the University of Tübingen as a medical resident and researcher. ^[4] He earned his medical doctor degree in 2000 for his work on Plastische Veränderungen durch semantische klassische Konditionierung und ihre elektrokortikalen Korrelate: eine Studie langsamer Potentiale (Plastic changes through semantic classical conditioning and their electrocortical correlates: a study of slow potentials). ^[5]

In 2003, he received a Feodor Lynen award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to join Leonardo Cohen's Human Cortical Physiology and Neurorehabilitation Section ( NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at Bethesda. ^{[6] [7]} There he worked on the first successful application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in stroke patients. ^[8] In 2005, he returned as researcher and medical resident to the Department of Neurology at Tübingen, ^[9] and, in 2006, to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf to finish his residency. ^[10] In 2006, he founded the Brain Imaging and Neurostimulation (BINS) Laboratory at Hamburg, became a certified in 2007, ^{[11] [12]} co-chairman at the Centre for Sleep Medicine in 2008, senior neurologist in 2013, and vice-director of the Department of neurology in 2013. ^{[13] [14]}

Since 2016 he holds the Defitech Chair for Clinical Neuroengineering as full professor, is the director of the Hummel Laboratory at the Centre for Neuroprosthetics (CNP) and the Brain Mind Institute (BMI), both at EPFL. ^{[1] [2]} Furthermore, he holds an associate professorship of clinical neuroscience at the University of Geneva. ^[3]

Research

Hummel's research targets the fields of systems and translational clinical neuroscience with three main areas of focus.

The first focus is on using multimodal imaging and behavioral measures to study neuroplasticity, neuronal control of sensorimotor functions, learning, and cognitive functions in healthy and neurological disorders, such as stroke, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or traumatic brain injury (TBI).

The second main focus is on developing innovative non-invasive interventional strategies based on neurotechnology, ^{[15] [16] [17]} such as brain stimulation ^{[18] [19]} to support patients' residual functions and enhance recovery. ^{[20] [21]} He has been involved in the application of non-invasive brain stimulation in stroke. ^{[22] [23]}

The third focus is the use of multimodal imaging to predict outcome and course of recovery after a stroke (Koch et al. 2021 Brain; Egger et al. 2021 Stroke), a prerequisite for personalized treatment strategies. ^{[24] [25]}

His research has been featured in news outlets such as NZZ, ^[26] Le Nouvelliste, Physics World, ^[27] Der Spiegel, ^[28] and Focus. ^[29]

Distinctions

Hummel is the recipient of the 2015 Felgenhauer Symposiums Prize of the German Neurological Society and the Felgenhauer Foundation; ^[30] the 2013 prize of the German Society of Neurotraumatology and Clinical Neurorehabilitation; ^[31] the 2010 Dr. Martini Prize; ^[32] the 2005 Susanne Klein-Vogelbach Prize; ^[33] 2005 Fellows Award for Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health; and the 2003 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. ^[31]

He is a member of the German Neurological Society, ^[34] the Society for Neuroscience, and the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. ^[35]

Selected works

• Nitsche, Michael A.; Cohen, Leonardo G.; Wassermann, Eric M.; Priori, Alberto; Lang, Nicolas; Antal, Andrea; Paulus, Walter; Hummel, Friedhelm; Boggio, Paulo S.; Fregni, Felipe; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro (July 2008). "Transcranial direct current stimulation: State of the art 2008". Brain Stimulation. 1 (3): 206–223. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2008.06.004. ISSN  1935-861X. PMID  20633386. S2CID  16352598.
• Lefaucheur, Jean-Pascal; André-Obadia, Nathalie; Antal, Andrea; Ayache, Samar S.; Baeken, Chris; Benninger, David H.; Cantello, Roberto M.; Cincotta, Massimo; de Carvalho, Mamede; De Ridder, Dirk; Devanne, Hervé (November 2014). "Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)". Clinical Neurophysiology. 125 (11): 2150–2206. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.05.021. ISSN  1388-2457. PMID  25034472. S2CID  206798663.
• Gandiga, Prateek C.; Hummel, Friedhelm C.; Cohen, Leonardo G. (April 2006). "Transcranial DC stimulation (tDCS): A tool for double-blind sham-controlled clinical studies in brain stimulation". Clinical Neurophysiology. 117 (4): 845–850. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.12.003. ISSN  1388-2457. PMID  16427357. S2CID  25934876.
• Hummel, F. (2005-01-05). "Effects of non-invasive cortical stimulation on skilled motor function in chronic stroke". Brain. 128 (3): 490–499. doi: 10.1093/brain/awh369. ISSN  1460-2156. PMID  15634731.
• Hummel, Friedhelm C; Cohen, Leonardo G (August 2006). "Non-invasive brain stimulation: a new strategy to improve neurorehabilitation after stroke?". The Lancet Neurology. 5 (8): 708–712. doi: 10.1016/s1474-4422(06)70525-7. ISSN  1474-4422. PMID  16857577. S2CID  9509765.
• Pulvermüller, Friedemann; Härle, Markus; Hummel, Friedhelm (2001-08-01). "Walking or Talking?: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of Action Verb Processing". Brain and Language. 78 (2): 143–168. doi: 10.1006/brln.2000.2390. ISSN  0093-934X. PMID  11500067. S2CID  40912475.
• Sauseng, Paul; Klimesch, Wolfgang; Heise, Kirstin F.; Gruber, Walter R.; Holz, Elisa; Karim, Ahmed A.; Glennon, Mark; Gerloff, Christian; Birbaumer, Niels; Hummel, Friedhelm C. (2009). "Brain Oscillatory Substrates of Visual Short-Term Memory Capacity". Current Biology. 19 (21): 1846–1852. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.08.062. PMID  19913428. S2CID  13999952.
• Fridman, E. A.; Hanakawa, T.; Chung, M.; Hummel, F.; Leiguarda, R. C.; Cohen, L. G. (2004). "Reorganization of the human ipsilesional premotor cortex after stroke". Brain. 127 (4): 747–758. doi: 10.1093/brain/awh082. PMID  14749291.
• Antal, A.; et al. (2017). "Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines". Clinical Neurophysiology. 128 (9): 1774–1809. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2017.06.001. PMC  5985830. PMID  28709880.
• Sauseng, P.; Hoppe, J.; Klimesch, W.; Gerloff, C.; Hummel, F. C. (2007). "Dissociation of sustained attention from central executive functions: Local activity and interregional connectivity in the theta range". European Journal of Neuroscience. 25 (2): 587–593. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05286.x. PMID  17284201. S2CID  3487768.
• Duque, Julie; Hummel, Friedhelm; Celnik, Pablo; Murase, Nagako; Mazzocchio, Riccardo; Cohen, Leonardo G. (2005). "Transcallosal inhibition in chronic subcortical stroke". NeuroImage. 28 (4): 940–946. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.06.033. PMID  16084737. S2CID  39285099.

References

External links

• Friedhelm Hummel publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Website of the Hummel Laboratory