Giacomo Rizzolatti#
Membership Number: | 560 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1969 - 1975 Associate Professor of Human Physiology, University of Parma
- 1975 - 1980 Professor of Human Physiology, University of Parma
- 1980 - 1981 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA,
- since 1981 Professor of Human Physiology, University of Parma
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurosciences
Honours and Awards
- 2014 The Brain Prize
- 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
- 2010 Laurea Honoris Causa, University of KUL, Leuven, Belgium
- 2007 IPSEN Foundation Neuroplasticity Prize 2007, Melbourne
- 2007 Grawemeyer Prize for Psychology, University of Louiseville, USA
- 2006 Laurea Honoris Causa, University St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2005 Foreign Member of the Académie Francaise des Sciences
- 2002 Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2002 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Prize “Feltrinelli” for Medicine, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 1999 Laurea Honoris Causa, University Claude Bernard Lyon, France
- 1990 - 1996 Council Member of Academia Europaea
- 1989 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1984 - 1986 President European Brain and Behaviour Society
- 1982 Golgi Award for Studies in Neurophysiology, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 1965 Award of Italian Neurophysiology Society