Karl Herholz

Overview

• Professor and Head of Neuroscience Research at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre
• Honorary neurological consultant at Salford Royal Hospital
• Honorary consultant at the Nuclear Medicine Department, Central Manchester Foundation Trust

Biography

• Graduation as medical doctor at the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1980
• After basic general clinical training, clinical research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany, since 1982
• Clinical specialist training in neurology at municipal and university hospitals, Cologne, Germany, from 1982 to 1990
• Since 1994 professor of neurology at the University of Cologne
• Since 2005, after moving to the University of Manchester, UK, professor in clinical neuroscience and head of the neuroscience imaging programme at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC)
• WMIC director from April 2006 to July 2010