Peter Jonas - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 1992 Habilitation, University of Heidelberg
- 1987 Medical Doctor, summa cum laude, University of Giessen
- 1980-1986 Studies of Human Medicine at the University of Giessen
Professional Appointments
- 2010-present Professor, IST Austria, Founding member of a Neuroscience Research Cluster
- 1995-2010 Full Professor and Head of Department, University of Freiburg, Physiological Institute
- 1994-1995 Associate Professor, Technical University of Munich, Physiological Institute
- 1990-1994 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Prof. Bert Sakmann, Heidelberg
- 1988-1989 Postdoc, Physiological Institute of the University, group of Prof. Werner Vogel, Giessen
Selected Awards and Distinctions
- 2014 Chair of Gordon Research Conference "Synaptic Transmission"
- 2011 6th David Smith Lecture in Anatomical Neuropharmacology, University of Oxford
- 2011 Adrian Lecture, University of Cambridge
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2009 Adolf Fick Award of the Physicomedical Society, Würzburg
- 2008-2010 Internal Senior Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
- 2008 Member of the Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg
- 2007 Tsungming Tu Award of the National Science Council of Taiwan
- 2006 Szentagothai memorial lecture, University of California, Irvine
- 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the DFG
- 2002- Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1998-2001 Human Frontiers Science Program Organization grant (principal investigator)
- 1998 Max Planck Research Award for international cooperation
- 1997 Medinfar European Prize in Physiology from the president of Portugal
- 1994 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award from the German minister of education and science
- 1992 Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG
Editorial Boards and Panels
- 2009-2014 Member, Advisory board, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen).
- 2008-2010 Coordinator, Collaborative Research Center “Synaptic Mechanisms of Neuronal Network Function” (SFB 780)
- 2007- Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science magazine
- 2005 President, Jacques Monod conference "Synaptic communication in neuronal networks"
- 2004-2007 Member, Grant review panel (Fachkollegium) Neuroscience of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 2001-2006 Member, Editorial board, The Journal of Neuroscience
- 1996-2003 Member, Editorial board, Journal of Physiology (London)