Curriculum vitae
Present positions
since 11/2023 Member of the Student Prize
Committee, German Aphasiology Society (GAB)
(
2013-2019 member, 2019-2023 lead)
since 12/2022 Additional teaching allowance for the Philosophical Faculty,
Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf
since 11/2021 Member of the aphasia and apraxia of speech guideline
commission on (registration number: 030 - 090)
since 07/2021 Adjunct Professor (Privatdozentin, PD), Heinrich-Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf
since 06/2019 Lead
in Speech, Language and Music Therapy, St Mauritius Rehabilitation Centre, Meerbusch
since
01/2015 Visiting Scientist, Clinical
and Cognitive Neurosciences, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, RWTH
Aachen University
(UKA)
since 01/2014 Editor-in-Chief
of a German journal on Speech-language Therapy (Sprache, Stimme, Gehoer;
SSG), since 2/2021 editor-in-chief of its column on video-based SLT examples
Qualifications
07/2021 Postdoctoral
Lecture Qualification
(Umhabilitation) in
Cognitive
Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf;
02/2015 Approved as Clinical Linguist in Germany (Klinische Linguistin, BKL)
06/2012 Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification (Habilitation), Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University; Venia Legendi: Language Pathology (Patholinguistik); since 01/2013, additional teaching allowance for the Philosophical Faculty
10/2007 PhD (Dr. phil.) in Neurolinguistics (summa cum laude), Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University
11/2001
M.A. (Magister) in
German Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science (with distinction,
RWTH
Aachen University)
02/2020-09/2022 Lecturer, School for Speech-language Therapists, RWTH Aachen University (UKA)
11/2019 -11/2023 Chair of the Student Prize
Committee, German Aphasiology Society (GAB)
05/2019-04/2022 Honorary
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, School of
Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
11/2017-10/2021 Deputy Chair of
the German Aphasiology Society (GAB) (Member of the Board of Advisers 2011-2017, 2021-2022)
01/2015-04/2019 Clinical
Senior Lecturer in ‘Cognitive Neuroscience
of Speech and Language’, School of Biological Sciences, University of
Manchester, GB
10/2013-12/2014 Professor of
Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics, SRH University of Applied Sciencesin Health
09/2013-12/2014 Deputy
Head of the Outpatient Language Clinic, Section Clinical and Cognitive Neurosciences, RWTH Aachen University (UKA)
09/2012-12/2013 Co-Editor of a German journal for Speech and Language Therapy (SSG)
06/2012-06/2021 Adjunct Professor (Privatdozentin, PD) at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany
03/2012-02/2015 SLT supervisor of a German multicentre RCT, University Hospital Muenster
05/2010-12/2014 Research Associate, Principal
Investigator, Division Neuropsychology, RWTH
Aachen University (UKA)
08/2006-04/2010 Research Associate, collaborative projects at RWTH Aachen
(UKA) and Freiburg University
02-07/2006 Research Associate, University
of Freiburg Neurocenter
02/2003-01/2006 PhD student at
the Section Neurolinguistics, RWTH Aachen University (UKA), on a scholarship by the German National Merit Foundation
3/2002-01/2003
Speech-language therapist (Neurological
Rehabilitation Centre Hagen; Aphasia Ward at RWTH Aachen University, UKA)
01-02/2002 Research Assistant, Section Neurolinguistics, RWTH Aachen
University (UKA)08-11/1999 Placement in Neurolinguistics,
Section Neurolinguistics, RWTH Aachen
University (UKA), followed by position as student assistant
04/1996-11/2001
Tutor (Student Assistant) in Political Science,
Linguistics, and in Teaching and Research SLT, RWTH Aachen University
Visits abroad
02-03/2012 Department
of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen (with Prof.
Karsten Specht)06/2008,02-05/2011 MACCS, Macquarie University in Sydney (with Prof. Lyndsey Nickels)
02/2005 MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (with Prof. Ardi Roelofs)
05-08/2003 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(with Prof. Gary Dell)
08/2021
Approval of the collaborative BMBF project 'Translingo' (Applicant: Prof.
Stefan Knecht, 1.5m EUR granted; Bruehl coordinator of the collaborative project
as well as applicant and PI of a sub-project)
05/2017 Award to the FCET2EC study group by the German
Society for Neuro-traumatology and Clinical Neurorehabilitation (DGNKN) for the
Lancet paper
09/2016 Short-listed for the Sir Jules Thorn
Award for Biomedical Research, for: Developing neurocognitive aphasia therapy: Establishing and applying neuroscience-based experimental medicine to post-stroke aphasia
11/2012 Research Award for
Neurorehabilitation, Donnersmarck Foundation
11/2010 Young Investigators
Award, CNS-Hannelore Kohl Foundation
06/2009 Borchers-Plakette, Freunde der Aachener Hochschule
01/2008 Admission to the Mentoring-Programme TANDEMplusMed, RWTH Aachen University (UKA)
10/2004 Academy of Aphasia Award, 42. annual meeting in Chicago
11/2003 Student prize of the
Gesellschaft für Aphasieforschung und -behandlung
(GAB)
07/2002 Springorum-Denkmünze, Freunde der
Aachener Hochschule
10/2021 Student prize of the GAB (category: doctoral thesis) for Lena Spitzer
04/2018 Doctoral Scholarship of the “Konrad Adenauer Stiftung” to Lea Plum
05/2016 Luise-Springer-Research Award to Lea Plum
11/2016 2. Poster Prize at the GAB for Spitzer, Binkofski, Willmes & Abel (2016)
11/2015 3. Poster Prize at the GAB for Plum, Nobis-Bosch, Krzok, Willmes & Abel (2015)
11/2014 1. Poster Prize at the GAB for Krzok, Nobis-Bosch, Willmes & Abel (2014)
10/2014 Doctoral Scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” to Lena Spitzer
03/2014 Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government, to Inga Hameister