Lars Nyberg#
Membership Number: | 6155 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | https://www.umu.se/en/umea-center-for-functional-brain-imaging/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-3367-1746 |
Present and Previous Positions
- January 2006 - present Professor of Neuroscience (Medical Faculty, Umeå University)
- 2001 - present Director of Umeå Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI),
- 2019 Director of Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), UmU
- Guest Professor: Bergen (2007 - 2011) & Oslo (August 2015 - ongoing), Norway
- 2012 - 2017 Torsten & Ragnar Söderberg’s Research professorship in medicine
- 1999 - 2005 Professor of Psychology at Umeå University and Researcher in Neuropsychology (Swedish Research Council)
Fields of Scholarship
- Imaging (MRI & PET)
- Dopamine
- Working memory
- Aging
- Episodic memory
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Member 1574)
- 2009, 2016 KA Wallenberg Scholar
- 2008 Mångbergs Prize in Neural Sciences, Umea University, Sweden
- 2007 Gustafsson Prize in medicine from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Brain Research Interactive Young Investigator Award
- 1994 Award from the Royal Skytteanska Society to ‘eminent young researchers’
- Wallenberg Scholar From KA Wallenberg’s foundation (15 M SEK).