Andreas U. Monsch

Prof. Andreas U. Monsch studied clinical psychology, psychopathology, and neurophysiology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and received his doctorate in 1991. From 1991–1994, he worked at the University of California, San Diego (US), one of the best Alzheimer' disease research centers in the world at the time. From 1994–2002, he was head of research at the Memory Clinic of the Geriatric University Hospital in Basel (Switzerland). In 2001 he received his habilitation and was promoted to Professor of Psychology at the University of Basel in 2003. Since 2002, he has been in charge of one of the largest memory clinics in Switzerland, which has relocated to the Felix Platter Hospital in 2016, Basel, and which is now called University Department of Geriatric Medicine Felix Platter. Prof. Monsch's research and teaching focuses on "Early diagnosis of dementia" and "Rare causes of dementia". He has published over 170 papers and book chapters.