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Academic Degrees:


2012:           Member of the Academia Europaea


2007:           Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences


2002:           Doctor of Science (D.Sc., Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

1995:           Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.; Oxford University, Hertford College, UK)

1992:           Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.; University of Veterinary Science, Budapest, Hungary)


Positions and Appointments:

2000-           Head of Laboratory of Cellular Neurophysiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary

1998-2000: Wellcome Prize Travelling Research Fellow in the Dept. of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles

1996:           Visiting Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology, University College London, UK

1995-1998:  Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford, UK


Awards and Prizes:


2013             Bolyai Prize


2012             Szechenyi Prize


2007             Debiopharm Life Sciences Award from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.


2006             FENS/Boehringer Award of the Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies.


2006             Akademiai Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary.


2004             Ignaz L. Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

2002             Talentum Prize from the Central European Talent Support Foundation, Hungary.

2001             Krieg Cortical Kudos Cortical Explorer Award from the Cajal Club, USA.

2000             The Chancellors Award for Postdoctoral Research.  An award for the best postdoctoral researcher at UCLA, USA.

1998             Wellcome Prize Travelling Research Fellowship. The Wellcome Trust, UK.

1996             Glaxo-Wellcome Prize Award.  A prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the UK provided by the Brain Res. Association.

1993/94       Overseas Research Students Awards.  University of Oxford, UK.


Fellowships:

2012-2017         European Research Council Advanced Grant


2006-2011         European Young Investigator Award from the European Science Foundation


2003-2006         International Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust

2001-2006         International Research Scholarship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

2000-2006         Boehringer Ingelheim Fond Research Award for Postdoctoral Fellows