Pierre Magistretti#
| Membership Number: | 2109 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Professor and Director, Brain Mind Institute, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne Joint appointment with UNIL-CHUV)
- 2005 - 2008 Professor and Co-Director, Brain Mind Institute, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne (Joint appointment with UNIL-CHUV)
- 2004 - present Professor and Director, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne Medical School and Hospitals (UNIL-CHUV) (Joint appointment with EPFL)
- 2001 - 2004 Co-Chairman, Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne Medical School
- 1996 - 2000 Vice-Dean for Preclinical Departments, University of Lausanne Medical School
- 1988 - 2004 Professor of Physiology, University of Lausanne Medical School
- 1982 PhD, University of California, San Diego, Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Biology
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroenergetics
- Neuro-glia interactions
- Brain metabolism
- Neuronal plasticity
- Glial plasticity
- Cellular imaging
- Digital holographic microscopy
- Cell dynamics, neurodegeneration
- Functional brain imaging
- Dialogue between neurosciences and psychoanalysis
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Recipient of the Theodore-Ott Prize of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2001 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 2001 Elected Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, ad personam
- 2002 Recipient of the Emil Kraepelin Guest Professorship, Max Planck Institute für Psychiatry, Münich
- 2006 Elected Professor at Collège de France, Paris, International Chair 2007-2008
