Short CV
1950 | Born in Berlin |
1970 | Studied Physics, Psychology and Computer Science in Bochum and Freiburg |
1978–81 | PhD thesis, supervised by Prof Burkhart Fischer und Prof Jürgen Krüger: “Interaction between neurones in the visual cortex based on recordings with a multi-microelectrode” |
1983 | Head of the Electrophysiological Laboratory in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Freiburg |
1991 | Habilitation and venia legendi for ‘Neurobiophysik’ |
1998 | Appointed as Professor (APL) |
1999 | Professional appointment as “Akademischer Direktor” Head of Section Visual Function / Electrophysiology |
2004–now | President of ISCEV |
Further Activities
- President of the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision
- ISCEV
- Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft (DOG)
- Pro-Retina AK klin. Fragen
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
- VSS
Michael Bach |
Research Group
Section Visual Function / Electrophysiology
Key Publications
- Bach M, Maurer JP, Wolf ME (2008)
VEP-based acuity assessment in normal vision, artificially degraded vision, and in patients.
Brit J Ophthalmol 92:396–403
- Bach M (2007)
The Freiburg Visual Acuity Test – Variability unchanged by post-hoc re-analysis.
Graefe’s Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 245:965–971
- Bach M (2006)
The effects of glaucoma on the latency of the multifocal visual evoked potential (editorial).
Brit J Ophthalmol 90:1076–1077
- Heinrich SP, Aertsen A, Bach M (2008)
Oblique effects beyond low-level visual processing.
Vision Res 48:809–818
- Heinrich SP, Andrés M, Bach M (2007)
Attention and visual texture segregation.
JOV 7:6,1–10
- Höffken O, Grehl T, Dinse H, Tegenthoff M, Bach M (2008)
Paired-pulse behavior of visually evoked potentials recorded in human visual cortex using patterned double-pulse stimulation.
Exp Brain Res 188:427–435
- Kornmeier J, Bach M (2008)
Object perception: When our brain is impressed but we do not notice it.
J Vision
- Kornmeier J, Hein CM, Bach M (2008)
Multistable Perception: When bottom-up and top-down coincide.
Brain & Cognition
- Normann C, Schmitz D, Fürmaier A, Döing C, Bach M (2007)
Long-term plasticity of visually evoked potentials in humans is altered in major depression.
Biol Psychiat 62:373–380
- Poloschek CM, Kloeckener-Gruissem B, Hansen LL, Bach M, Berger W (2008)
Syndromic choroideremia – sublocalization of phenotypes associated with Martin-Probst deafness mental retardation syndrome (MPDMRS).
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 49:4096–4104
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