Michael Hornberger is Professor of Applied Dementia Research and Associate Dean of Innovation at Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia in the UK.He regularly meets patients with Alzheimer's disease as part of his research aimed at improving diagnosis, disease tracking and symptom management. Michael is originally from Germany and studied at the universities of Osnabruck and Vienna. He gravitated to England where he did his PhD at University College London before working at Cambridge University. He spent six years in Sydney, Australia, before returning to Cambridge. He finally arrived at UEA in November 2015. In his spare time, he listens to jazz.