formerly Head, Department of Clinical Neurology
Medical University Vienna & Vienna General Hospital
Waehringer Guertel 18-20
1090 Wien
Austria

Phone: +43 1 320 5558
Fax:     +43 1 320 0309
cellular phone +43 664 499 4023
Email: lueder.deecke@silverserver.at

1938 born on the shore of the North Sea (Lohe, Dithmarschen, Holstein, Germany). High school years at Celle near Hanover.
1958 Baccalaureat at ‘Humanistisches Gymnasium-Ernestinum Celle.’ Study of Physics for 1 Semester, University of Hamburg.
1959-60 Military service (Lieutenant of the Reserve).
1960-1966 Study of Medicine at the Universities of Freiburg (Breisgau), Hamburg and Vienna. Stipend of the ‘Studienstiftung.’
1965 Graduation in Medicine
1966 Promotion to M.D. (Doctoral thesis, discovery of the readiness potential / Bereitschaftspotential together with my mentor H.H. Kornhuber)
1966 ECFMG-Examination of the US (Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates) in Frankfurt.
1966-1968 Internship at the Neurological University Hospital Freiburg (Prof. Richard Jung). 1968-1970 Resident, Neurological University Hospital Ulm (Prof. H.H. Kornhuber).
1970-71 Research Fellow, Oto-Neurophysiology Laboratory, University of Toronto (Prof. J.M. Fredrickson).
1972-74 Senior Resident Neurological University Hospital Ulm.
1974 ’Habilitation’ (Thesis to become Professor) for Neurology and Neurophysiology.
1978 Associate Professor of Neurology.
1982 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Brain Behaviour Laboratory (Prof. H. Weinberg), Simon Fraser University Vancouver.
1985 Full Professor (Professor ordinaries) University of Vienna, Chair of Clinical Neurology
1985 Head, Neurological University Hospital Vienna.
1991 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of California, Irvine, Department of Neurology (Prof. A. Starr).
1992 Founder & Head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Functional Brain Topography and Head of the Institute.
2000 Head, Department of Clinical Neurology University of Vienna
1971 Scientific Award of the City of Ulm
1989 Dr. Herbert Reisner Award
1990 Citation Classic, Current Contents, Institute for Scientific Information (Kornhuber & Deecke, Pflügers Arch. 284: 1-17, 1965)
1997 Hoechst Award
2000 Hans Berger Award of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
2003 Dr. honoris causa Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., Greater Vancouver
573 publications. Married, 3 Sons.