Thomas Grunwald was born in 1956 in Germany and now lives in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a neurologist, specializing in clinical neurophysiology and pre-surgical evaluations at the Swiss Epilepsy Centre in Zurich. He teaches neurology at the Bonn University Medical Centre, Germany, and cooperates in the study of neurophysiological correlates of artistic and rhetorical communication with the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, and the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe, Germany.