Peter Jonas#
| Membership Number: | 4054 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://ist.ac.at/research/research-groups/jonas-group |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - Professor, IST Austria
- 1995 - 2010 Full Professor and Head of Department, University of Freiburg, Physiological Institute
- 1994 - 1995 Associate Professor, Technical University of Munich, Physiological Institute (depart. of Prof. Dudel)
- 1990 - 1994 Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Prof. Bert Sakmann, Heidelberg
- 1988 - 1989 Postdoc at the Physiological Institute of the University, group of Prof. Werner Vogel, Giessen
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroscience
- Synaptic transmission
- Presynaptic mechanisms
- Plasticity
- Ion channels
- Calcium signaling
- Neural circuits
- Interneurons
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Chair of Gordon Research Conference "Synaptic Transmission"
- 2011 6th David Smith Lecture in Anatomical Neuropharmacology, University of Oxford
- 2011 Adrian Lecture, University of Cambridge
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant “Nanophysiology of fast-spiking, parvalbumin-expressing GABAergic interneurons”
- 2009 Adolf Fick Award of the Physicomedical Society, Würzburg
- 2008 - 2010 Senior Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
- 2008 Member of the Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg
- 2007 Tsungming Tu Award of the National Science Council of Taiwan
- 2006 Szentagothai memorial lecture, University of California, Irvine
- 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the DFG
- 2002 Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Germany)
- 1998 - 2001 Human Frontiers Science Program Organization grant (principal investigator)
- 1998 Max Planck Research Award for international cooperation
- 1997 Medinfar European prize in physiology from the president of Portugal
- 1994 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award from the German minister of education and science
- 1992 Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG
