Prof. Dr. Alexander Schmidt

  • Born in Kiel in 1977
  • 1997-2001: studies in piano with Prof. Vladimir Krainev at the Hannover University of Music, Theater, and Media
  • 2001-2007: studies in medicine at the Hannover Medical School, followed by medical-scientific training as a specialist in neurology at the Clinic of Neurology of the Institute of Neurogenetics at Lübeck University
  • Doctoral degree from the Institute of Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine; postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) in the field of Experimental Neurology at Lübeck University
  • Research foci include occupational musician's disorders, in particular focal dystonia, the influence of music and music-making on health and development, as well as neurophysiological and pathophysiological processes involving music-making
  • Since 2014: W3 professorship in musician's medicine at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin; since 2015: director of the Kurt Singer Institute for Music Physiology and Musician's Health (KSI), a joint institute of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)
  • Head of the prevention program in musician's health for music students at the KSI, as well as head of the certified extra-occupational advanced training course in music physiology and musician's medicine at the UdK Berlin
  • Since 2016: head of the Berlin Center for Musician's Medicine (BCMM) at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • Since September 2017: board member of the Deutsches Gesellschaft für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin
  • Author of numerous scientific publications; lecturer at national and international congresses; recipient of a number of scientific prizes and successful applications for third-party funding
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