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