Péter P. Somogyi, FRS, FMedSci - Curriculum Vitae#

I. Present Position

Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, U.K.

II. Education

• First Degree: 1975, Biology, first class, (5 year course, including final year research project for a Degree equivalent to an M.Sc.), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Graduating Thesis: Electron microscopic cytochemical studies on cholinesterases in the adrenal medulla (in Hungarian).
• Second Degree: 1977, Ph.D., (summa cum laude) Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Title of Thesis: The Synthesis and Release of Acetylcholinesterase (in Hungarian).
• Higher Degree: 1987, D.Sc., Doctor of Biological Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Research training:
  • 1969-1970: Student Research Assistant, Department of Zoology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Supervisor: Professor J. Balogh.
  • 1970-1973: Student Research Assistant, Department of Pathology, Electron Microscope Laboratories, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Supervisor: Dr. I. Benedeczky.
  • 1973-1974: Junior Research Associate (on leave from biology course from Budapest), Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. Supervisors: Dr. A.D. Smith, Dr. I.W. Chubb.

III. Professional appointments

• 1975-1976: Junior Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1st Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary. Supervisors: Dr. J. Hámori, Professor J. Szentágothai.
• 1976-1983: Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1st Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary

On leave from above post as visiting scientist:

• 1977-1978: Departmental Demonstrator, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr A.D. Smith.
• 1978-1979: Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, (18 months), Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.
• 1980-1982: Visiting scientist as above (4 month/year).
• 1983-1985: Senior Research Fellow, (25 months), Department of Human Physiology, Flinders Medical School, South Australia.
• 1985-to date: Associate Director, later Co-Director, then Director of the M.R.C. Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford.

IV. Teaching

• 1977-1978 Dept of Pharmacology, Oxford University, Demonstrating to chemistry students in practical classes
• 1980-to date Supervising D. Phil. students
• 1986-1996 Oxford University, Lecturing to Final Honour School students in Pharmacology
• 1987-1989 Neuroscience Postgraduate Course, Oxford University
• 1987-1996 Neuroanatomy, Final Honour Practical for medical students
• 1990-1994 Lectures in Neuropharmacology, 1st year physiology students
• 1997-2002 Practical demonstration to 2nd year physiology students
• 1995-to date Lecture and practical in MSc Course in Neuroscience

Invited Faculty Member on Postgraduate Courses:

• 1986 Biological Aspects of Neuron Activity, International School of Biophysics Erice, Italy
• 1987 Molecular Neuroanatomy, ETP/ENA/IBRO Course, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1987 Advanced Neuroanatomy, ESF/ETP Course, Budapest, Hungary
• 1987 Cerebral Cortex as a Unified Structure, Soc. for Neurosci. Course, New Orleans, U.S.A.
• 1994 Ionic Channels in Nerve Cells, Winter School, Alicante, Spain
• 1994 Neuroscience for Clinicians, Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
• 1996 Postgraduate Course in Neurotransmission , Debrecen Med. Sch., Hungary,
• 1996 Cerebral Cortex, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Postgraduate Course,
• 2000 IBRO Summer School, Functional Neuroanatomy, Tihany, Hungary
  

V. Editorial board member

• 1978- Neuroscience
• 1987-1989 Journal of Neurocytology
• 1988- 2005 Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy
• 1988- European Journal of Neuroscience (1996-99 receiving editor)
• 1989- Experimental Brain Research
• 1990- Cerebral Cortex
• 1992- J. Hirnforschung
• 1995-2001 J. Neuroscience
• 2003- Hippocampus
• 2007- Brain Structure and Function
• 2008- J. Experimental Neuroscience

VI. Named and Honorary Lectures

• 1990 Moruzzi Lecture, European Neuroscience Association, Stockholm
• 1995 Julian Tobias Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago
• 2001 Jerzy Olszewski Lecture, Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
• 2002 Janos Szentagothai Memorial Lecture, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
• 2003 Wenner-Gren Distinguished Lecturer, Sweden
• 2003 Segerfalk Award Lecture, University of Lund, Sweden
• 2004 Special Plenary Lecture, 16th IFAA Conference, Kyoto, Japan
• 2005 1st Janos Szentagothai Memorial Lecture, University of California, Irvine, USA
• 2006 Quastel Lecure, Otto Loewi Conference, Eilat, Israel
• 2006 Servier Conference Lecture, Neuroscience Research Centre, University of Montreal
• 2008 The IBRO Lecture, Univ. Debrecen, Hungary
• 2008 The 1st Hans Kosterlitz Lecture, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

VII. Prizes and Awards

• 1976: Scientific Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Junior Scientists. First prize
• 1977: Scientific Prize of the Hung. Acad. Sci. for Junior Scientists. First Prize
• 1982: M. Lenhossek Prize of the Association of Hungarian Anatomists and Embryologists
• 1984: Charles Judson Herrick Award of the Association of American Anatomists
• 1988: Merck Sharp and Dohme Visiting Professor at the Department of Medicine, Flinders University, South Australia
• 1990 Honorary Doctorate, Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary
• 1991 Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award of the Cajal Club, American Anatomical Society,
• 1995 Yngve Zotterman Prize, Physiological Society, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1996 Professor of Neurobiology, Oxford University
• 1998 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kyoto University
• 2002 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
• 2004 Elected Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford
• 2006 Janos Arany Medal, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Presidential Committee for Contribution to Hungarian Science from Abroad
• 2006 Istvan Bathory Award from the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania for working on restoring Hungarian higher education in Romania
• 2008 Elected Associate, Neuroscience Research Program, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego
• 2009 The Feldberg Prize and Lectures, Feldberg Foundation, London, UK
  

VIII. Membership of Learned Societies

• 2000 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
• 2004 Elected Corresponding Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
• 2006 Elected Fellow of The Medical Academy of Sciences, London
• 2006 Elected Member of The German National (Leopoldina) Academy of Sciences
• 2009 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea

IX. Some senior scientists trained by me as students or postdocs and their current positions

Dr. M. Antal, Professor, Head, Dept. Anatomy, Univ. Medical Sch., Debrecen, Hungary
Dr. A. Baude, Senior Scientist, CNRS, Marseille, France
Dr. E. H. Buhl, (deceased) Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, U.K.
Dr. P. Bolam, Professor (ad hominem) MRC Unit, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Oxford, U.K.
Dr. S. Cobb, Reader, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Glasgow, UK
Dr. F. Ferraguti, Professor of Pharmacology, Innsbruck University, Austria
Dr. T. F. Freund, Professor, Director, Inst. of Exp. Med., Hungarian Acad. Sci., Budapest, Hungary
Dr. P. Gabbott, Lecturer, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.
Dr. K. Halasy, Professor, Dept. Anatomy & Histology, Veterinary School, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Z. F. Kisvarday, Docent, Dept. Anatomy, Univ. Medical Sch., Debrecen, Hungary
Dr. T. Klausberger, Professor, Univ. Vienna, Austria; Senior Scientist, MRC Unit, Oxford, U.K.
Dr. M. Kritzer, Associate Prof. Dept. Neurobiol. Behav., SUNY at Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
Dr. P. R. Lowenstein, Cedars Sinai Med Center, Gene Therapuetics Res Inst, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Dr. L. Marton, Docent, EMTE-Sapientia Univeristy, Targu-Mures, Romania
Dr. R. Lujan-Miras, Lecturer, Facultad de Medicina, Univ. Castilla-La Mancha Albacete, Spain
Dr. G. Maccaferri, Assistant Prof., Dept Physiol, Sch. Med., Northwestern Univ. Chicago, USA
Dr. Z. Nusser, Wellcome Trust Sen. Res. Fellow, Inst. Exp. Med., Hungarian Acad. Sci., Hungary
Dr. O. Paulsen, Lecturer, Department of Physiology, University of Oxford, U.K.
Dr. J. V. Priestley, Professor, Dept. Physiol., St. Thomas Hosp. Med. Sch., London, U.K.
Dr. R. Shigemoto, Professor, Lab. Cerebral Structure, Natl. Inst. Physiol. Sci., Okazaki, Japan
Dr. I. Soltesz, Full Professor, Chariman, Dept. Anat. & Neurobiol., Univ. California Irvine, U.S.A.
Dr. T. Szilagyi, Lecturer, Medical School, University of Targu Mures, Romania
Dr. S. Totterdell, Retired Senior Res. Fellow, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Oxford, U.K.
Dr. G. Tamas, Senrior Lecturer, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Dept. Comp. Physiol., University of Szeged, Hungary.
Dr. I. Vida, Lecturer, Dept. Pharmacology, Univ. Glasgow, UK