Portrait Andreas Luft

Andreas Luft
Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Neurology

Other functions at USZ

  • Head of stroke team

Specialties

  • Stroke
  • Neurorehabilitation
  • General neurology

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 55 11

Career

2014 Appointment as Associate Professor of Vascular Neurology and Rehabilitation at the University of Zurich
2008 Appointment to the Assistant Professorship for Clinical Neurorehabilitation at the University of Zurich
2006 Habilitation in neurology at the University of Tübingen
2001 – 2005 Specialist training in neurology at the University Hospital of Tübingen
1999 – 2001 Neurointensive care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
1998 – 1999 Interventional Neurosurgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo
1998 Doctorate at the University of Tübingen
1991 – 1998 Studied human medicine at the Eberhardt Karls University of Tübingen, Germany

Most important memberships

  • Swiss Neurological Society, since 2009
  • Swiss Stroke Society, since 2009
  • Swiss Society for Neurorehabilitation, since 2009
  • Swiss Society for Neurosciences, since 2016
  • European Stroke Organization, since 2012
  • World Stroke Organization, since 2012

Research focus

  • Stroke
  • Motor recovery
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Reward physiology

Prices

2010 Susanne Klein Vogelbach Prize for Rehabilitation Research
2006 Alois Kornmüller Prize of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
2005 Commerzbank Foundation Science Prize
2005 Attempto Prize of the University of Tübingen