Gilles Laurent#
| Membership Number: | 4529 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://brain.mpg.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2008 Visiting Scholar (sabbatical), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
- 2002 - 2011 Lawrence A. Hanson Chair, Professor of Biology and CNS, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA (on leave from 2009 to 2011)
- 2000 - 2002 Professor of Biology and CNS, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 1996 - 2000 Associate Professor of Biology and CNS, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 1990 - 1995 Assistant Professor of Biology and Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 1987 - 90 Royal Society Locke Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 1987 - 90 Research Fellow, Downing College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 1985 - 87 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Systems, computational and cellular neuroscience
- Cellular computation
- Olfactory coding
- Vision
- Cortex and hippocampal evolution
- Sleep mechanisms and evolution
- Camouflage in cephalopods
- Insect, rat, zebrafish, reptile, turtle, lizard, cuttlefish
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Member, EMBO
- 2013 - 2018 Advanced Investigator ERC grant
- 2002 Fellow Associate, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 2001 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2000 - 2003 McKnight Neuroscience Investigator Award
- 1993 - 1998 National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow Award
- 1993 L.L. and A.W. Ferguson Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 1992 L.L. and A.W. Ferguson Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 1991 - 1994 McKnight Neuroscience Young Investigator Award
- 1991 - 1993 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow Award
- 1990 - 1993 Searle Fellow Award
- 1987 International Society for Neuroethology Prize
- 1987 - 1990 Royal Society Locke Research Fellow, UK
- 1987 - 1990 Research Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge, UK
- 1985 1985 City of Toulouse Prize (Natural and Life Sciences), France
