1. Olaf Blanke was born on 1969 and is a Swiss and German physician, neurologist and neuroscientist.
14 Facts About Olaf Blanke
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Olaf Blanke holds the Bertarelli Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroprosthetics at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
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Olaf Blanke directs the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Brain Mind Institute of EPFL and is professor of Neurology at Geneva University Hospitals.
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From 1989 to 1996 Olaf Blanke studied in medicine at, Free University of Berlin and at Sorbonne University, Paris.
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Olaf Blanke carried out his doctoral work in neuroscience with Otto-Joachim Grusser at the Institute of Neurophysiology at the Free University of Berlin on multisensory mechanisms of saccadic eye movements.
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Olaf Blanke then joined the presurgical epilepsy program at Geneva University Hospitals as a postdoctoral researcher to work with Margitta Seeck and Nicolas de Tribolet on epileptology, cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging.
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Olaf Blanke joined the EPFL in 2004 first as an assistant professor and has been full professor in neuroscience at EPFL since 2012.
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In 2013, Olaf Blanke was appointed as a full professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Geneva.
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Since 2018, Olaf Blanke has acted as founding director of EPFL's Center for Neuroprosthetics, dedicated to research in engineering, neuroscience and medicine, with research activities in Geneva, Fribourg, Sion, and Lausanne.
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Olaf Blanke is a board member of the neuro technology company Mindmaze and co-founded Metaphysiks.
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Olaf Blanke's research is dedicated to the neuroscientific study of multisensory body perception and self-consciousness.
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Olaf Blanke developed and tested several new VR-based procedures for patients with chronic pain such as complex regional pain syndrome, phantom limb pain in amputation, and spinal cord injury.
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Olaf Blanke has an interest in complex conscious experiences and their varied personal, neuroscientific, historical and cultural aspects.
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Olaf Blanke has studied out-of-body experiences and astral travel, doppelganger experiences, the sense of presence, as well as free will, and thought insertion.