Friedemann Pulvermüller#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 7344 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/brainlang/Team/FPulvermueller.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3210-7112 |
Friedemann Pulvermüller passed away October 11, 2025.
Positions Held
- 2011 - present Full Professor for Neuroscience of Language and Pragmatics ('W3', tenured), Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- 2000 - 2011 Programme Leader in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language ('band 2', tenured), MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1995 - 2000 Heisenberg Fellow, Psychology Department, Universität Konstanz, Germany
- 1993 - 1995 Helmholtz Fellow, Medical School, Universität Tübingen, Germany
- 1991 - 1993 Postdoctoral Researcher, Linguistics Department, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
- 1990 - 1991 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Post-stroke aphasia rehabilitation
- Brain-constrained neural network modeling
- Semantic and conceptual processing
- Neuropsychological research (TMS, patient studies)
- Linguistic pragmatics and communication
- Neuroimaging research (MEG, EEG, fMRI, ECoG)
- Neuroscience of language
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - 2026 ERC Advanced Grant 'Material Constraints Enabling Human Cognition', MatCo, European Research Council, (2.5Mio EUR)
- 2016 Faculty Member, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin
- 2015 - 2017 Honorary Lecturer, Dept of Psychology, University of Malaga
- 2014 Honorary Doctor (Dr h.c.), Inst of Behavioral Sciences, University of Helsinki
- 2013 Faculty Member, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- 2012 - 2017 Honorary Professor, School of Computing, University of Plymouth
- 2011 Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki
- 2007 - 2010 Visiting Professor, Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University
- 2004 Honorary Professor, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor
- 2003 - 2011 Honorary Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 2003 - 2011 Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Senior Member 2011
- 2000 - 2011 MRC Intramural Research Grants on Brain Mechanisms of Language, Medical Research Council, UK, [ca 5Mio GBP]
- 1995 - 2000 Heisenberg Fellowship, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
- 1995 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychophysiology, Society for Psychophysiological Research
- 1994 Attempto-Award for Brain Research, Universität Tübingen
- 1993 - 1995 Helmholtz Fellowship, Ministry of Research, Germany
- 1991 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
- 1988 - 2000 Research Fellowship, Stiftung zur Förderung der Philosophie, Germany
- 1986 - 1988 Doctoral Fellowship, State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
