Rufin Vogels - Curriculum Vitae#

Present occupation:

• Gewoon hoogleraar (Full Professor), Department of Neuroscience, KU Leuven

Education:

• MSc. (Psychology), 1982, K.U.Leuven
  
• Ph.D. (Psychology), 1985, K.U.Leuven

Career:

• Professor, Medical School, KU Leuven, 2005-
  
• Senior Lecturer, Medical School, K.U.Leuven, 2001-2005
  
• Lecturer, Medical School, K.U.Leuven, 2000-2001
  
• Research Associate, National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium), 1994-2000
  
• Lecturer, Medical School, K.U.Leuven, 1994-2000
  
• Research Associate, National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium), 1989-1994
  
• Senior Research fellow National Research Council of Belgium, 1986-1989
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow, M.I.T., Cambridge (Massachusetts), 1985-1986
  
• Research fellow, National Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO; Belgium), 1982-1986

Specialization:

(1) Electrophysiology (single cell recordings) in awake, behaving monkeys.
(2) Cognitive Neuroscience
(3) Visual Psychophysics

Memberships/Societies:

• President Belgian Society for Neuroscience
  
• President Belgian Brain Council
  
• Member Vision Sciences Society (USA)
  
• Member Society for Neuroscience (USA)
  
• Member The European Dana Alliance for the Brain.
  
• Elected member International Neuropsychological Symposium
  
• Co-director of the Program Cognitive and Molecular Neuroscience of the Doctoral School Biomedical Sciences of the KU Leuven

Teaching:

Undergraduate courses on Neurophysiology, neural mechanisms of perception and of memory at the Faculty of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences and Dpt of Psychology of the KU Leuven.

Reviewer for

Science, Neuron, Current Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, PLOSBiology, PLOSOne, Journal of Neurophysiology, Vision Research, Journal of Vision, etc