Prof. Dr. Til Ole Bergmann

Associate Professor (W2) of Neurostimulation

Deputy Head of Neuroimaging Center (NIC) 

NeuroImaging Center (NIC), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Group Leader AG Neurostimulation 

Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz, Germany

I am a biological psychologist / cognitive neuroscientist interested in the function of neuronal oscillations in cognition, in particular for the organization of information processing and the gating of synaptic plasticity in the wake and sleeping human brain. My methodological focus is on the simultaneous combination of non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation techniques with neuroimaging and electrophysiology and the development of novel approaches, such as brain state-dependent brain stimulation.

Prof. Dr. Til Ole Bergmann
Associate Professor of Neurostimulation
Deputy Head, NeuroImaging Center (NIC)
Johannes-Gutenberg University Medical Center
Langenbeckstr. 1, Bldg. 308c, 55131 Mainz, Germany

+49-6131-17-7720 | tobergmann@uni-mainz.de
www.tobergmann.de

I graduated in Psychology at the University of Kiel (Germany), and did my PhD with Prof. Hartwig Siebner on the oscillatory underpinnings of memory consolidation during sleep using concurrent tES-TMS, EEG-fMRI, and TMS-EEG. During a subsequent PostDoc with Prof. Ole Jensen at the Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen (Netherlands) I then studied the function of alpha oscillations for visuospatial attention using concurrent TMS-EEG and tES-MEG approaches. Following an interim faculty appointment at the Institute of Psychology back in Kiel, I moved to Tübingen (Germany) to work with Prof. Ulf Ziemann on real-time EEG-triggered TMS to study the function of the sensorimotor mu-alpha rhythm for corticospinal excitability and with Prof. Jan Born to continue my investigations into the function of sleep-specific oscillations. In 2018, I started my own research group for Neurostimulation at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) in Mainz (Germany), where we established concurrent TMS-fMRI and further advanced EEG-triggered TMS and the automation of neurostimulation experiments. In November 2020, I was appointed Associate Professor (W2) of Neurostimulation at the Neuroimaging Center (NIC) of the Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center in Mainz, while keeping an associated research group at the LIR to continue studying the neurobiological correlates of emotional memory processing for resilience. At the NIC, we have recently started to establish transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) for non-invasive deep brain neuromodulation.

• Brain Stimulation (Editorial board member since 2025)
• Imaging Neuroscience (Senior Editor since 2023)
• NeuroImage: Reports (Editor-in-chief 2022-2023) *
• NeuroImage (Handling Editor 2019-2022; Editorial board member 2016-2023)*
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Consulting Editor since 2020)
• The Journal of Neuroscience (Editorial Board member 2017-2023)

* for information regarding the collective resignation of all academic editors from NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports see announcement on Imaging Neuroscience website 

• 2021: John Rothwell Award 

• Prof. Lennart Verhagen, Nijmegen, NL
• Prof. Christian Windischberger, Vienna, AT
• Prof. Ulf Ziemann, Tübingen, DE
• Dr. Christoph Zrenner, Tübingen, DE
• Prof. Jan Born, Tübingen, DE
• Prof. Hartwig Siebner, DRCMR, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, DK
• Prof. Ole Jensen, University of Birmingham, UK
• Dr. Bernhard Staresina, University of Birmingham, UK
• Prof. Nigel Rogasch, Monash University Melbourne, AUS
• Prof. Emily Coffey, Concordia University, Montreal, CA