Ulla Mitzdorf

Ulla Mitzdorf
Born15 March 1944
Mittenwald, Germany
Died19 July 2013(2013-07-19) (aged 69) [1]
Munich, Germany
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience, physics, chemistry, psychology, physiology, medicine and gender studies
WorkplacesTechnical University of Munich, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, LMU Munich

Ulla Mitzdorf (15 March 1944 – 19 July 2013) was a German scientist. She contributed to diverse areas including physics, chemistry, psychology, physiology, medicine and gender studies.

Life and Scientific Work

Mitzdorf gained her doctorate in theoretical chemistry in 1974 at the Technical University of Munich.[2] Subsequently, she worked as a scholar at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich. In 1983, she habilitated in physiology,[3] and in 1984 in medical psychology and neurobiology at LMU Munich.

From 1988 to 2009, she was the Fiebiger Professor for medical psychology at LMU Munich.[3] Simultaneously, from 2000 to 2006, she was women's affairs officer and spokeswoman for the state conference of women and gender equality officers in Bavarian universities.

Ulla Mitzdorf significantly contributed to the understanding of local field potentials (LFPs) in the central nervous system. By implementing the technique of current source density (CSD),[4] she provided additional evidence for the theory that cortical LFPs result from the synaptic activity[4] in the brain.

Mitzdorf died after a short illness on 19 July 2013, aged 69.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Frau Dr Ulla Mitzdorf". sz-ms.vrsmedia-trauerportal.de.
  2. ↑ "Ulla Mitzdorf német tudós (1944–2013)". Nőkért.hu (in Hungarian). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  3. 1 2 Chronik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1986–1988 (PDF). Munich: Präsidialkollegium der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. p. 29. ISBN 3-922480-05-5. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 Destexhe, Alain; Goldberg, Joshua A. (2014). "LFP Analysis: Overview". Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_782-1. ISBN 978-1-4614-7320-6.
  5. ↑ "Ehemalige LMU-Frauenbeauftragte verstorben - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München". www.uni-muenchen.de (in German). Archived from the original on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.

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