Petra Ritter (neuroscientist) explained

Birth Name:	Petra Wobst
Birth Date:	1974
Nationality:	German
Prof. Dr. med.
Alma Mater:	Charité
Discipline:	Computational and Clinical Neuroscience
Workplaces:	Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Charité
Main Interests:	Personalised brain simulations
Notable Works:	The Virtual Brain

Petra Ritter (née Wobst; born 1974)^[1] is a German neuroscientist and medical doctor at Charité in Berlin. Her field is computational neuroscience and her focus is developing brain simulations for individual people with neurological conditions, combining EEG and neuroimaging data.

Ritter studied medicine at Humboldt University Berlin. She did residencies at UCLA, UCSD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Harvard Medical School, as well as Charité. In 2002, she received her medical license to practice medicine. In 2004, she completed her doctoral thesis at Charité under Arno Villringer.^[2]

She led a lab at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig from 2011 to 2015.

She is a co-founder of The Virtual Brain open-source brain simulation platform.^[3] Since October 2017 she has held a lifetime BIH Johanna-Quandt Full Professorship of Brain Simulation at the Dept. of Neurology at the Charité and Berlin Institute of Health.^[4]

As of 2018, her most-cited papers were:

• Moosmann . M . Ritter . P . Krastel . I . Brink . A . Thees . S . Blankenburg . F . Taskin . B . Obrig . H . Villringer . A . Correlates of alpha rhythm in functional magnetic resonance imaging and near infrared spectroscopy. . NeuroImage . September 2003 . 20 . 1 . 145–58 . 14527577 . 10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00344-6. 39614622 .
• Ritter . P . Moosmann . M . Villringer . A . Rolandic alpha and beta EEG rhythms' strengths are inversely related to fMRI-BOLD signal in primary somatosensory and motor cortex. . Human Brain Mapping . April 2009 . 30 . 4 . 1168–87 . 10.1002/hbm.20585 . 18465747. 6870597 .
• Obrig . H . Wenzel . R . Kohl . M . Horst . S . Wobst . P . Steinbrink . J . Thomas . F . Villringer . A . Near-infrared spectroscopy: does it function in functional activation studies of the adult brain? . International Journal of Psychophysiology . March 2000 . 35 . 2–3 . 125–42 . 10677642 . 10.1016/s0167-8760(99)00048-3.
• Ritter . P . Villringer . A . Simultaneous EEG-fMRI. . Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews . 2006 . 30 . 6 . 823–38 . 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2006.06.008 . 16911826. 1032514 .
• Freyer . F . Roberts . JA . Becker . R . Robinson . PA . Ritter . P . Breakspear . M . Biophysical mechanisms of multistability in resting-state cortical rhythms. . The Journal of Neuroscience. 27 April 2011 . 31 . 17 . 6353–61 . 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6693-10.2011. 6622680 . 21525275. free .

External links

• Vido Interview (German). Berlin Institute of Health. 27 November 2017
• Lab website: News: Gerhirnsimulation (Brian Simulation). Charité. 2018-09-30. de.
• Former lab website at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences: Web site: Brain Modes. Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. 2018-08-20.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek . 30 September 2018.
2. Web site: Profile: Petra Ritter . Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience . 30 September 2018 . en.
3. Web site: The Virtual Brain - Our Leaders. The Virtual Brain. 20 August 2018.
4. News: Press release: Petra Ritter now Johanna Quandt Professor for Brain Simulation at BIH . en. 4 October 2017. Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience. Original: News: Press release: BIH und Charité berufen erste Wissenschaftlerin auf eine von drei neuartigen BIH Johanna Quandt-Professuren. 4 October 2017. de.