Dr. Brigitte Vollmer

Biography

Brigitte Vollmer is a Professor of Perinatal Developmental Neurology at the University of Southampton, having joined the institution in August 2010. She specializes in pediatric neurology, particularly focusing on perinatal neurology, neurodevelopment, and neuroimaging. Brigitte graduated from the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tuebingen, Germany, and completed her training as a Pediatrician and Pediatric Neurologist at the Children’s Hospital of the University of Tuebingen. She subsequently trained at the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where she received clinical and specialist research training in neonatal neurology and neurodevelopmental follow-up for infants born at risk. Her doctoral studies centered around neuroimaging investigations regarding brain structure-function relationships in preterm infants. She has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship and conducted postdoctoral studies at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, focusing on motor development and its associations with brain structure, which were assessed using qualitative and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. Brigitte's current research examines the relationships between brain development and long-term neurological as well as neurodevelopmental outcomes in children who were born at high risk or who experienced adverse peri/neonatal events leading to brain damage.

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