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.

Dr. Thomas Tienkamp

He is a clinical speech scientist investigating speech changes in individuals with Parkinson's disease by combining acoustic analyses with brain imaging methods. His research focuses on understanding the neural basis of the speech difficulties experienced by people with Parkinson's disease and translating these findings into clinically meaningful methods for speech assessment and monitoring.

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.  

Ulrike Rupprecht

She is a PhD candidate in the Phonetics Departement at University of Cologne and the Neurology Departement at the University Hospital Cologne. Combining both fields, she investigates cognition and speech production in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Through her research, she aims to contribute to a better understanding of speech mechanisms in people with and without dysarthria.

Sabrina von Au

She is a clinician scientist and postdoctoral fellow investigating speech production in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Her research focuses on EEG and LFP recordings in Parkinson’s disease to achieve a better understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying motor speech production.