Gernot Müller-Putz

Gernot Müller-Putz

Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller-Putz is head of the Institute of Neural Engineering and its associated Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces. He received his MSc in electrical and biomedical engineering, his PhD in electrical engineering and his habilitation and “venia docendi” in medical informatics from Graz University of Technoloy. Since 2014 he is full professor for semantic data analysis. He interested in brain-computer interface research based on EEG and ECoG, mainly for movement restoration and re-establishing of communication. He has also managed numerouse international projects, mainly funded by EU. Furthermore, he organized and hosted the Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference over the last two decades in Graz, the next one in preparation for 2024. In 2015, he was awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant “Feel your Reach” from the European Research Council. In 2017 he received the Ludwig-Guttman Award from the German Medical Spinal Cord Injury Association (DMGP). He is currently member of the Board of Directors of the International Brain-Computer Interface Society, and he is founding member and scientific Co-Director of the NeuroIS Society. Since October 2023, he is Dean of the department for Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at TU Graz.

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    Graz University of Technology
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    Head of the Institute of Neural Engineering