Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Bahmer was appointed to an honorary professorship in medical engineering and applied physics in the Faculty of Engineering at Hochschule RheinMain (HSRM) on September 8, 2023. After secondary school, Professor Bahmer studied medicine and physics at the universities of Kiel, Bonn, Frankfurt and Darmstadt, graduating with a degree in physics in 2003. He went on to earn his doctorate in biology from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, which he completed in 2007. From 2007 to 2014, Andreas Bahmer was a research assistant at the ENT clinic of  Goethe University Frankfurt in cochlear implant research. It was during this time that he completed his habilitation in medicine and his doctorate in theoretical medicine. Between 2015 and 2020, Professor Bahmer held the Endowed Chair of Clinical Experimental Hearing Research at the University Hospital of Würzburg, before moving to the MEG laboratory at the Brain Imaging Center of Goethe University Frankfurt as laboratory manager from 2020 to 2022. Since 2020, he has been an associate researcher in the Singer Lab at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt. In 2022, he was appointed to an interim and honorary professorship and, subsequently, took on several teaching assignments at Hochschule RheinMain. He has also been teaching electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science at vocational schools in Groß-Gerau (BSGG) since fall 2022.

What aspect of your research fascinates you the most?

I am fascinated by the interdisciplinary nature of my fields of research – physics, neurophysiology and brain research – and the power of neuronal processing in the brain.

What does “good teaching” mean to you?

Didactic reduction, student involvement and interest in the audience.

What did you want to be growing up?

Excavator operator, because I mistakenly thought that you didn’t need to be able to read or write.