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Dr. Thomas Wolbers is a visiting postdoctoral researcher from the Department of Systems Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. He received his diploma in psychology from the Universities of Berlin and Hamburg, and in 1997/1998 he worked with Prof. G.R. Mangun at the Center for Neuroscience (UC Davis, California) on electrophysiological correlates of supramodal attention. After two years of evaluating the potential of interactive driving simulators for assessing and training driving fitness in neurological patients, he joined Prof. Christian Büchel’s research group at the Department of Systems Neuroscience in Hamburg. In 2005, he received his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from Hamburg University for his work on the neural foundations of strategic effects during mental rotation and navigational learning. In addition, since 2002 he has been a core faculty member of the German course on Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) that is held annually in Hamburg. In 2005, Dr. Wolbers has been awarded a prestigious three-year Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship by the European Commission. He currently spends the first two years of this fellowship working with Professors Mary Hegarty and Jack Loomis. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and virtual environment technology, he will investigate brain mechanisms supporting fundamental aspects of spatial orientation in complex environments. Contact Information Phone: N/A Mailing Address
Department of Psychology
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