Michael A. Nitsche is Director of the Dept. Psychology and Neurosciences at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund, Germany. He studied Psychology and Medicine at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen, and performed his Dissertation in Medicine at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen. He is interested in plasticity research in humans, including non-invasive brain stimulation, neuropsychopharmacology, cognition, and application of non-invasive brain stimulation for treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases. Together with Walter Paulus he developed tDCS. He received grants from various funding organizations, including the German Research Foundation, and the European Union, and published more than 300 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.