University of Pecs, Hungary M. D. 1974 Medicine
Academy of Sciences, Budapest Ph. D. 1984 Neuroscience
University of Texas, San Antonio post-doc 1980-81 Neuroscience
University of Western Ontario, London post-doc 1981-82 Neuroscience
1975-88
Assistant/Adjunct Professor at Institute of Physiology
University of Pecs, School of Medicine, Pecs, Hungary
1981
Clinical Electroencephalographer Examination, Budapest
1984-85
Visiting Associate Professor,
University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
1985
Visiting Faculty at Department of Psychology,
State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York (2 months)
1986-88
J.D. French Foundation Fellow,
Department of Neurosciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1988-90
Associate Professor in Residence,
Department of Neurosciences, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
1990-95
Professor I, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
1995-2003
Professor II, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2003-
Board of Governors Professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience,
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Cellular bases of hippocampal EEG activity in the behaving rat
October 1984
Advisor: Endre Grastyan
Outside advisor: Cornelius H. Vanderwolf
Herbert Jasper Lecture. Montreal Neurological Institute (2004)
ISI Highly Cited (top 250 most cited neuroscientists)
Elected Fellow, AAAS (2004)
Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award. The Cajal Club, American Association of Anatomists (2001)
Honorary member. Hungarian Academy Sciences (2001)
Fogarty International Senior Fellow. National Institute of Health (2000) College de France Distinguished Professor. College de France, Paris, France (1998)
The Pierre Gloor Award. American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (1997)
"The Moruzzi Lecture" - Invited Plenary Speaker. European Neuroscience Meeting. Strasbourg, France. September 23-27, 1996.
The Board of trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University (1995)Traveling Grass Lecturer (1992)
The "F. Bottazzi" Lecture. Opening address to the XLIII. Annual Meeting of the Italian Physiological Society, Sorrento, Italy, 1991
The 35th "Swammerdam Lecture". Dutch Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1991
J. D. French Foundation Fellow (1986-88)
European Science Foundation Travel Awards (1981,1983,1984, 1986)
Science Achievement Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1986)
Service:
Contributions to the advancement of the academic profession:
IBRO Advisory Science Program (member)
Editorial boards:
Neuroscience (1989-2004); Section Editor (2000-2004)
Neuron (2001-)
Reviews in Neuroscience (2001-)
Journal of Neuroscience (1997-2002)
Behavioral Brain Research (1993-)
Hippocampus (1993-)
Epilepsia (1999-)
The Thalamus (2001-)
Neuroscience Research Communications (1991-)
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience (1991-94)
Behavioral Neuroscience (1990-1995)