Sergiu Groppa is professor of neurology and head of Movement Disorders, Neurostimulation and Imaging at the Clinic of Neurology at the University Medical Center Mainz. After studying medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Innsbruck and Kiel, he was trained as neurologist and clinical neuroscientist at the Universities of Kiel and at King’s College London. His scientific work focuses on mechanisms of brain reorganization for motor and cognitive function and as a principle of adaptation to neurological disorders. He develops paradigms for optimised neuromodulation with deep brain stimulation (DBS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation.