We are an interdisciplinary research group of neurologists and phoneticians in Cologne and we investigate speech motor control in movement disorders.
Prof. Dr. Michael T. Barbe
He is a specialist in neurology working at the department of neurology in Cologne. His research focuses on deep brain stimulation and its effect on speech motor skills.
Prof. Dr. Doris Mücke
She is a professor at the Phonetics lab in Cologne. Her main research interest lies in the area of Experimental Phonetics, focusing on the interplay between speech motor control and prosodic patterns in speech. She uses various kinematic and acoustic measurement techniques to capture speech patterns in typical and atypical speech.
Dr. Ilona Rubi-Fessen
She is a speech-language pathologist who works as a clinician scientist in an early rehabilitation hospital and as lecturer at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses on non-invasive brain stimulation in subacute aphasia and the speech and language assessment of aphasia and parkinson´s disease.
Dr. med. Hannah Jergas
She is a clinician scientist currently working as a postdoctoral fellow after having joined the group for her MD thesis in 2017. She is interested in understanding how to improve speech outcomes for patients with parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.
Dr. Tabea Thies
She is a phonetician investigating speech of patients with movement disorders by using acoustic and articulatory speech recordings. The aim is to understand speech mechanisms that induce dysarthria, on the one hand, but also investigating disease and treatment effects on speech, on the other hand.
Dr. med. Jan Niklas Petry-Schmelzer
He is a clinician scientist focusing on the analysis of network effects of deep brain stimulation.
Lyle Tadmor
She is a trained speech therapist and a PhD student in the Department of Phonetics in Cologne. Her research focuses on speech production mechanisms, particularly in individuals with movement disorders.
Alumni
Bastian Auris, Johannes Becker, Sophie Berlet, Richard Dano, Till A. Dembek, Martine Grice, Jonathan Hannemann, Kyra Kashigin, Henrik Niemann, Jane Mertens, Timo B. Röttger, Lars Timmermann