Josef Syka#
Membership Number: | 2254 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2004 |
Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor of physiology at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University
- Professor, Institute of Experimental Medicine ASCR, Department of Auditory Neuroscience (Director 1994 - 2001)
- 2000 - 2008 Chairman of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
- 1993 - 2000 Deputy Prime Minister of the Government Council for Research and Development
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental medicine
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Honorary doctorate, Russian Academy of Sciences (in protest against the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine (2022), prof. Syka decided to give up this award and returned it to the Russian Academy of Sciences)