interviews

The Science Network interviews: Part I,Part II,Part III
Clips: The Rightful Place, Music and Rhythms
TDLC interview

Brain Science Podcast
10 Questions for Gyorgy Buzsaki
sueddeutsche.de

education

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

 

 

work

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.

 

2003-2012
Board of Governors Professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.

 

2012 - present
Biggs Professor of Neural Sciences , NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University, Langone Medical Center, NY.

 

publications

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Dissertation: Cellular bases of hippocampal EEG activity in the behaving rat October 1984 Advisor: Endre Grastyan Outside advisor: Cornelius H. Vanderwolf

 

 

honors and distinguished lectures

• The Brain Prize Lecture, FENS Forum, Barcelona, July 15, 2012.


• The Brain Prize (shared with Peter Somogyi and Tamas Freund), 2011. (http://www.thebrainprize.org/)


• NYU Honors Program Lecture Series, January 30, 2011.


• J. P. Scott Annual Lecture. Center for Neuroscience, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. 2010.


• Sterling Visiting Professor Distinguished Lecture. Albany Medical College, NY. November 4, 2010.


• Keynote Speaker. European College of Neuropsychopharmacology ECNP 23rd. 2010.


• The Talairach Lecture, 16th Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Society, Barcelona, Spain, 2010.


• Grass Traveling Scientist. University of Alabama, Program in Neurosciences. University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL. December 7, 2009.


• The Hans-Lukas Teuber Lecture, MIT, Cambridge, MA (2009)


• The 2nd David Smith Lecture, Oxford University, Oxford, England (2009)


• Henry Neufeld Memorial Award 2008 (BFS Israel)


• College de France Distinguished Professor. College de France, Paris, France (2008)


• Chancellor's Award Lecture in Neuroscience, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA (2007)


• Opening Plenary Lecture, Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, FENS, Vienna, Austria (2006)


• Provost's Research Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Rutgers University, (2006)


• The Swammerdam Lecture, Amsterdam, Dutch Academy of Sciences, The Netherlands (2005)


• The First Robert L. Isaacson Lecture. University of Binghamton (SUNY, 2005)


• Distinguished Lecturer. RIKEN Brain Science Institute (2005)


• Herbert Jasper Lecture. Montreal Neurological Institute (2005)


• Fellow, Neurosciences Research Program, La Jolla, CA (2005-2010)


• ISI Highly Cited (top 250 most cited neuroscientists)


• Elected Fellow, AAAS (2004)


• Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award. The Cajal Club, American Association of Anatomists (2001)


• Foreign member. Hungarian Academy Sciences (2001)


• Fogarty International Senior Fellow. National Institute of Health (2000)


• College de France Distinguished Professor. College de France, Paris, France (1999)


• The Pierre Gloor Award. American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (1997)


• G. Moruzzi Lecture. European Neuroscience Meeting. Strasbourg, France, 1996


• The Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University (1995)


• Traveling Grass Scientist (1992) University of New Foundland, Canada


• F. Bottazzi Lecture. Opening address to the XLIII. Annual Meeting of the Italian Physiological Society, Sorrento, Italy, 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:
Science (member, Board of Reviewing Editors, 2011-)
Neuron (2001-)
Journal of Neurophysiology (2004-)
Reviews in The Neurosciences (2001-)
Hippocampus (1993-)
Brain Structure and Function (2008-)
Translational Neuroscience (2010-)
The Thalamus (2001-)
Clinical Neuroscience (2004-)
Neuroscience Research Communications (1991-)
Journal of Neuroscience (1997-2004)
Epilepsia (1999-2003)
Behavioral Brain Research (1993-2010)
Neuroscience (1989-2004); Section Editor (2000-2004)
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience (1991-94)
Behavioral Neuroscience (1990-1995)

other interests

Cool Links:
When art teaches science - discovery of tensegrity
Elizabeth Horowitz

 

NeuroArt

The New York Times story, "The Beautiful Mind"
More images at the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center website