Curriculum vitae - Rudolf Graf
Education and Professional Experience
- 1974
University degree in biology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany - 1978
Dissertation with Werner Rautenberg, Institute of Animal Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany - 1978-1980
Postdoc, Institute of Animal Physiology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany - 1980-1982
Postdoc, lab of Craig Heller, Department of Biology, Stanford University, CA, USA - 1983-2005
Research Associate, Departement of Neurology, Director Wolf-Dieter Heiss, Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany - 1992
Habilitation (Experimental Neurology), Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany - since 1998
Adjunct Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany - 2005-2014
Deputy Managing Director and Research Group Leader for Multimodal Imaging of Brain Metabolism, Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany - Since 2014
Research Group Leader for Multimodal Imaging of Brain Metabolism, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, (formerly Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research), Cologne, Germany
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Board of Directors German Competence Network Stroke
- German Neurological Society
- German Stroke Society
- German Zoological Society
- International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Society for Neuroscience
- Steering Committee of the COSBID Study Group
Key Scientific Expertise
Experimental Neurology / Experimental Stroke / Cortical Spreading Depolarization
Positron Emission Tomography / Real-Time Optical Imaging / Electrophysiology / Microdialysis
Selected Publications
- Strong AJ, Anderson PJ, Watts HR, Virley DJ, Lloyd A, Irving EA, Nagafuji T, Ninomiya M, Nakamura H, Dunn AK, Graf R (2007) Peri-infarct depolarizations lead to loss of perfusion in ischaemic gyrencephalic cerebral cortex. Brain 130:995-1008.
- Dohmen C, Sakowitz OW, Fabricius M, Bosche B, Reithmeier T, Ernestus RI, Brinker G, Dreier JP, Woitzik J, Strong AJ, Graf R (2008) Spreading depolarizations occur in human ischemic stroke with high incidence. Annals of Neurology 63:720-8.
- Bosche B*, Graf R*, Ernestus RI, Dohmen C, Reithmeier T, Brinker G, Strong AJ, Dreier JP, Woitzik J (2010) Recurrent Spreading Depolarizations after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Decreases Oxygen Availability in Human Cerebral Cortex. Annals of Neurology 67:607-17.
- Nakamura H, Strong AJ, Dohmen C, Sakowitz OW, Vollmar S, Sue M, Kracht L, Hashemi P, Bhatia R, Yoshimine T, Dreier JP, Dunn AK, Graf R (2010) Spreading depolarizations cycle around and enlarge focal ischaemic brain lesions. Brain 133:1994-2006.
- Gramer M, Feuerstein D, Steimers A, Takagaki M, Kumagai T, Sue M, Vollmar S, Kohl-Bareis M, Backes H, Graf R (2014) Device for simultaneous positron emission tomography, laser speckle imaging and RGB reflectometry: Validation and application to cortical spreading depression and brain ischemia in rats. Neuroimage 94:250-262.