Hajime Hirase - Curriculum Vitae#

Current position:

• Main appointment: Professor, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen
  
• Other appointment(s): Adjunct Professor of Neurology, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center

• 1993 - 1997 Ph.D., Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, (University of London, UK) (Ph.D. awarded in April 1997)
  
• 1990 - 1993 B.Sc. (1st Class Honours), Computer Science, University College London (University of London, UK)

• 2019 - present Professor, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen.
  
• 2004 - 2020 Principal Investigator, RIKEN (2004-2011 Unit Leader, 2011-2020 Team Leader; 2004 - 2018 Brain Science Institute, 2018 - 2020 Center for Brain Science)
  
• 2003 - 2004 Research Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ *2000 - 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY (Mentor: Rafael Yuste)
  
• 1996 - 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (Mentor: György Buzsáki)

• Editorial board (current): General Psychiatry (2017 - present), Neuroscience Next (2019 - 2020), GLIA (2019 - present), International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2021 - present)
  
• Review editor (current): Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2012 - present), Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (2014 - present), Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience (2018-present), International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2021 - present)
  
• Permanent Advisory Board: International Astrocyte School, 2011 - present
  
• The Japan Neuroscience Society: international cooperation committee, 2020 - present
  
• The Japan Neuroscience Society annual meeting (Neuro 2019) program committee
  
• The Danish Society for Neuroscience annual meeting (2021) organization committee
  
• ERC consolidator grant review panel (2025)
  
• Programme Committee FENS Forum 2024
  
• Editorial board(past): Progress in Brain Research (2014 - 2020), Opera Medica et Physiologica (2014 - 2020), Neuroglia (2018 - 2019), OA Neurosciences, (2013 - 2015)

• UCL Japan Scholarship (1993)
  
• Overseas Research Students Awards (1994 - 1996)
  
• Human Frontier Long-Term Fellowship (1998 - 2000)
  
• Uehara Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2000 - 2001)
  
• Epilepsy Foundation Research Training Fellowship (2003 - 2004)
  
• Lundbeck Foundation visiting professorship (2016, to University of Copenhagen, with Prof. Maiken Nedergaard)