Professor Cornelia Kornblum

Cornelia Kornblum is Associate Professor of Neurology at the Center for Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Germany. She managed the Department of Neuromuscular Disorders of the University Hospital Bonn until December 2025. From January 2026, she will head the Department of Neurology of the Theodor-Wenzel-Werk e.V. in Berlin, Germany, similarly addressing chronic neurological, neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases. Cornelia will continue her educational and mitochondrial research activities in Bonn. She received her MD from the University Medical School of Bonn in 1999 and specialised in Neurology in 2003. From 2004 to 2005, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Epileptology and the Life & Brain Research Center in Bonn studyingmitochondrial genetics. Since 2006, she has been a senior neurologist and head of the neuromuscular group of the University Hospital Bonn. In 2008, she qualified as a university lecturer and receivedthe Venia Legendi for clinical neurology for her thesis on mitochondrial disorders. She was appointed Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Bonn in 2014. Cornelia’s major researchinterests include the brain involvement in various neuromuscular diseases with a special focus on mitochondrial disorders and myotonic dystrophies. She is a member of several national andinternational scientific societies. From 2017 to 2025, she represented the health care provider University Hospital Bonn within the European Reference Network ERN EURO-NMD, and since thencontinues her work as a co-chair of the respective mitochondrial working group. Since 2020, she is an elected member of the Research Committee of the European Neuromuscular Center ENMC located in Amsterdam, NL.