Lars Nyberg - Curriculum Vitae#
Current and select past academic appointments and qualifications
- Professor of Neuroscience (Medical Faculty, Umeå University), January 2006
- Director of Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), 2001
- Director of Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), UmU 2019
- Guest Professor: Bergen (2007-11) & Oslo (August 2015 – ongoing), Norway
- Torsten & Ragnar Söderberg’s Research professorship in medicine (2012 - 2017)
- Professor of Psychology at Umeå University and Researcher in Neuropsychology (supported by the Swedish Research Council), 1999-2005.
- Post-doc Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Canada, 1994 - 1995
- PhD (1993) and Docent (1996), Psychology, Umeå University
- University Studies, Clinical Psychology, Umeå University, Sweden (1986 - 1989)
Supervision (main & co-)
PhD = 27 (7 ongoing), Post-doc = 11 (4 ongoing)
Awards
- Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2008, Member 1574)
- KA Wallenberg Scholar (2009, 2016)
- Mångbergs Prize in Neural Sciences, Umea University, Sweden (2008)
- Gustafsson Prize in medicine from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2007)
- Brain Research Interactive Young Investigator Award (2002)
- Award from the Royal Skytteanska Society to ‘eminent young researchers’ (1994)
Select Major Grant Support
- 2017 Lifebrain. Horizon 2020 EU, K Walhovd main PI; Nyberg PI for Umeå node (Total = 10 million EURO/5yrs)
- 2016 Wallenberg Scholar (renewal). From KA Wallenberg’s foundation (15 M SEK)
- 2013 Cognition, brain, and aging (COBRA): A longitudinal multimodal imaging study. Lars Nyberg PI. From Swedish Science Council (5 M SEK; 1M/year, 2013-17)
