Hannah Monyer#
| Membership Number: | 4358 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/izn/researchgroups/monyer |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009, 09 Helmholtz W3 Professor at the Department “Clinical Neurobiology” of the Medical Faculty of the University and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg
- 1999, 05 Head of the Department of Clinical Neurobiology, Neurological University Hospital Heidelberg and Interdisciplinary Center of Neurosciences (IZN), University Heidelberg
- 1994, 10 Hermann-and-Lilly-Schilling-Foundation C3 Professor at the Center for Molecular Biology, University Heidelberg
- 1989-1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Molecular Biology, University Heidelberg (Prof. P.H. Seeburg).
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroscience
- Molecular biology
- Interneuron structure and function
- Glutamate receptors
- Mechanisms of synaptic transmission
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Elected member of EMBO
- 2010 Heidelberg University Marsilius Fellow
- 2009 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2007 Elected member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2006 Philip Morris Research Award
- 2005 Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences LEOPOLDINA
- 2005 Prix Franco-Allemand Gay-Lussac – Humboldt
- 2004 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the DFG
- 1999 Federal Cross of Merrit on Ribbon
