!!Alfonso Araque \\ __Positions:__ \\ *1989 - 1992 Predoctoral fellow. Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain *Oct 1990 Visiting scientist. CNRS, Marseille, France *Dec 1991 Visiting scientist. CNRS, Marseille, France *June 1992 Visiting scientist. CNRS, Marseille, France *1993 - 1995 Areces Foundation Postdoctoral fellow. Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain *1996: NATO Postdoctoral fellow. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA *1997 - 1998 HFSP postdoctoral fellow. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA *1998 - 1999 Associated researcher. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA *1999 - 2001 Researcher. Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain *2001 - 2006 Staff scientist, CSIC. Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain *2006 - 2007 Research scientist, CSIC. Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain *2008 Research full professor, CSIC. Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain \\ __Honours and Awards:__ \\ *2008 Pfizer Foundation Award *Coordinator of the Biomedicine Area of the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP), Spain (2009), *2008 Scientific Review Associate, European Journal of Neuroscience *2009 Treasurer of the Spanish Society for Neusocience (SENC) *Scientific Highlight of the Year 2007. Selected by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (PENS) and presented by Sociedad Espanola de Neurociencias (SENC) *Member of Evaluation Committees: **Member of Commitees to evaluate Doctoral Thesis, Spain **Member of Commitees to appoint Staff Scientist, CSIC, Spain **Expert of Program ACADEMIA of ANECA, to appoint Univeristy Proffesors, Spain **Member of Commitee for Habilitation de Recherche (HDR), France