Lamberto Maffei#
Membership Number: | 348 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
- 2001 - 2008 Director of the CNR Institute of Neuroscience
- 1988 - 2008 Professor of Neurobiology and Director of the laboratory of the same name Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
- 1980 - 2001 Director of the Neurophysiology Institute of the National Research Council of Pisa
Fields of Scholarship
- Development and plasticity of the mammalian cortex
- Role of spontaneous discharge in prenatal development
- Importance of neural growth factors for plasticity
Honours and Awards
- 10 June 2009 - 1 August 2015 President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1 August 2015: Vice-president of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 1965 Award of the Italian Society of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology (together with Giacomo Rizzolatti)
- 1975 Golgi Prize of the National Academy of the Lincei for neurophysiology
- 1976 Giuseppe Giannuzzi Prize for studies on the nervous system
- 1979 Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine
- 1995 Golgi Gold Medal for neuroscience from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2009 Atena International Award for neurodegenerative diseases, Rome
- 2009 Delfini d'Argento Award, a life for science, Cascina
- 2011 Campano d'oro, University of Pisa
- 2011 Sante De Santis award, for the volume "The freedom to be different"
- 2012 Scanno Award for Values promoted by the Tanturri Foundation
- 2013 Eureka Prize for Technological Innovation promoted by the "Culture and Science" Association with the Ministry of Education, University and Research
- 2015 "Città delle Rose" non-fiction award, 13th edition.
- 2014 Knight of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2015 Gold Medal of the G.B. Foundation Bietti for the study and research in Ophthalmology