Alain Berthoz#
Membership Number: | 1525 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 1994 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1993 - 2009 Professor at the Collège de France
- Director of the Neurosensory Physiology Laboratory of the CNRS
- 1973 Doctor of Natural Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Integrative physiology
- Multisensory control of gaze, balance, locomotion and spatial memory
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Member of the International Academy of Astronautics
- 1999 Corresponding member of the French Academy of sciences (Paris) and member in 2003
- Honorary professor at the Collège de France
- Awards and medals
- 1985 Silver medal of the National Centre for Space Studies
- 1987 La Caze Prize of the French Academy of sciences (Paris)
- 1991 General Prize of the Academy of Medicine (Paris)
- 1996 Daw Award for Neuroscience (USA)
- 1998 International Prize for Neurology of the University of Pavia
- 1998 Grand Prix du CEA of the French Academy of sciences (Paris)