PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Marc Christoph Wittmann Date of birth: September 29, 1966 Place of birth: München, Germany EDUCATION
2007: Ludwig-Maximilian University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany. Habilitation. Venia legendi in Medical Psychology. Thesis on “The experience of time: cognitive and emotional modulators of temporal perception.” 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 programme) 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 Since 2009 - Research Fellow, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany. Studies on time perception. 2007-2009: Assistant Project Scientist, University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry. Psychophysical and neuroimaging studies on decision making and time perception in Martin Paulus' lab. 2004-2007: Research Fellow, University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry. Psychophysical and neuroimaging studies on decision making and time perception in Martin Paulus' lab. 2000-2004: Ludwig-Maximilian 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. 1997-1999: Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany. Research Fellow at the Institute of Medical Psycholog. Advisor to medical students 1994-1997: Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany. Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Medical Psychology 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
TEACHING POSITION
Since 2010 - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany. Lectures in Medical Psychology on impulsivity and self control. 2010 Cognitive Psychology Seminar on time perception, Department of Psychology, Beijing University, PR China. Since 2009 - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany. Seminar in Medical Psychology 2006-2008: 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 2011: International Symposium on 'Time and the Conscious Brain' at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Delmenhorst (with Poggel)
2003: Symposium “Menschenbild und Menschenbildung. Instrumente der Bildung und des Wissenstransfers in unserer Gesellschaft” at the Fachhochschule Benediktbeuern (with Endres) 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 funds2007-2009: (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” (KIBM 07-33) 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” (01GZ0301) 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” (01 IBC 01H) in: "Modkog – new procedures of information processing on the basis of neurocognitive modeling" sponsored by the German Ministry 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.” (VW00-1) A 2-year project sponsored by the Else-Kröner-Fresenius foundation with DM 233.900.-. PROJECTS"If it's not one thing..." The Hybrid Authorship Dance Project San Diego. A collaboration between choreographers and dancers Joe Alter, Liam Clancy, Eric Geiger, neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann, dramaturg D.J. Hopkins, lighting designer Craig Wolf and performer/media artist Ashley Johnstone. MEMBERSHIPDeutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie (since 1998), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (since 2002), Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2003-2007), Society for Neuroscience (since 2007-2011)
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