Dorothe Poggel studied Psychology at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) and received her Diploma in 1995. She spent one year as a Visiting Student at St. Catherine's College, Oxford (UK), funded by a scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in 1991/92. From 1996 until 2001, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Medical Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany) and received her Ph.D. in Neuropsychology in 2002. During her doctoral work on effects of spatial attention on a training program for the recovery of visual functions in brain-lesioned patients, she specialized in psychophysical and electrophysiological measures of visual system plasticity. In 2001, she joined the Generation Research Program (GRP) of Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Germany) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow where she helped to build the Vision Lab, specializing on studies on visual field mapping in normal and visually impaired subjects, the change of visual functions over the lifespan, temporal processing in the lesioned visual system, and functional plasticity induced by training. During her predoctoral and postdoctoral work, she was engaged in teaching courses in Psychology for medical students, covering a wide range of topics. In October 2003, she became Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation (CIVR) at the Boston VA Medical Center and joined BU's newly founded Center for Brain Imaging (Dae-Shik Kim, PhD) in June 2004. She is presently doing research on plasticity of brain functions in patients with visual field loss to contribute to the effort of CIVR to create a retinal implant for partially blind patients. Moreover, she is doing research on attention, visual hallucinations in blind patients, and cross-modal plasticity.