Professor Dr Volker Dietz completed his medical training and specialisation in neurology and neurophysiology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research is predominantly focused on human neuronal control and movement disorders. Between 1977 and 1992, Professor Dietz was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology at the University of Freiburg, after which he was appointed as Head of the Spinal Cord Injury Center at the University Hospital Balgrist and Chair of Paraplegiology at the University of Zurich. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Consultant for the MRC Council, the German Research Council, the Danish National Research Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the European Commission.
A recipient of the German Research Council's Preis der Hoffnung Award in 1998, Professor Dietz has published over 280 peer-reviewed papers.
Professor Dr Nick S. Ward is Reader in Clinical Neurology and an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He trained in medicine at Charing Cross & Westminster Hospital, going on to obtain his postgraduate neurology training at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He was awarded the first Clinical Fellowship in Stroke Medicine by the Stroke Association in 1999, after which he worked as a Wellcome Trust funded clinical research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. In 2011, he was promoted to Reader in Clinical Neurology, and in 2017 to Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation in the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience at UCL.
A co-founder of the UCLP Centre for Neurorehabilitation and Associate Editor of the journals Neurorehabilitation and Neuronal Repair and Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry , Professor Ward's special clinical interest is stroke and neurorehabilitation.