Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Grodd (born 25 July 1942 in Detmold) is a German neuroradiologist and professor emeritus of the University hospital at the University of Tübingen. He is known for his scientific works on the development and application of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in metabolic diseases, sensorimotor representation, language production, and cognitive processing, cerebellum, thalamus, and basal ganglia. Currently, Wolfgang Grodd is a research scientist at the Department of the High-Field MR at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Biography After serving as a temporary soldier in the German Army from 1959 to 1964 and training as an electronics technician, W. Grodd obtained his Abitur (high school diploma) in 1968 at Westfalen Kolleg in Bielefeld and studied biology from 1968 to 1977 and medicine from 1974 to 1981 at the University of Tübingen. From 1972 to 1975 he was a scholarship holder of the Protestant Student Union Villigst. He received his diploma in biology in 1977 and his license to practice medicine in 1981. This was followed by residency training as a radiologist at the Medical Radiation Institute of the University of Tübingen (1981-1986), which was interrupted by a DFG research fellowship at the Department of Radiology at the University of San Francisco from 1984 to 1985. In 1987, he initially moved to the Department of Neuroradiology at the University of Tübingen as a consultant, where he worked as a senior physician from 1991 to 1995. In 1991, he habilitated in the field of radiology/neuroradiology on the topic of experimental and clinical investigations of volume-selective proton spectroscopy of the human brain, and in the same year he was granted a teaching license in the field of neuroradiology. The following year, W. Grodd was appointed Professor of Neuroradiology at the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin, but declined. From 1995, he was professor and head of the scientific section Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of the Central Nervous System at the University Hospital of Tübingen, where he gave his farewell lecture in 2010. Currently, Grodd is at the Department High-field Magnetic Resonance at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Scientific focus Clinical use of proton spectroscopy Maturation, abnormalities and metabolic diseases of children's brains Functional imaging of fear, sociopathy, humour and laughing Memory performance in Alzheimer's disease and dementia Language processing and speech production Functional anatomy of cerebellum and thalamus Using functional magnetic resonance imaging