Pascal Fries

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Pascal Fries (born January 28, 1972 in St. Ingbert ) is a German neurophysiologist .

Life

Pascal Fries studied medicine from 1991 to 1993 at the Saarland University and from 1993 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he completed his medical studies in 1998 with the state examination. For his doctoral thesis, he carried out research in Wolf Singer's department at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt from 1993 to 1998 and received his doctorate in 2000 from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. From 1999 to 2001 he was a postdoctoral fellow in Robert Desimone's laboratory at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda (Maryland) in the USA . From 2001 to 2009 he was project manager at the Center for Neural Imaging Techniques at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands , where he has held a professorship since 2008. In the same year he was appointed a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and began the associated work in 2009 as founding director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in cooperation with the Max Planck Society in Frankfurt.

honors and awards

  • 1991–1998: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.
  • 1999–2001: Postdoctoral membership at the German National Academic Foundation (BASF).
  • 2000: Graduate ( summa cum laude ) at the Goethe University Frankfurt, specializing in medicine.
  • 2001: Award for the best dissertation of the year 2000, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , medical specialty.
  • 2003: “VIDI” award for career training from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organizatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, NWO).
  • 2006: Award as European Young Researcher ("EURYI") from the European Science Foundation.
  • 2006: Member of the youth academy at the Royal Netherlands Academy for Art and Science (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW).
  • 2007: Bernhard Katz Prize.
  • 2008: Research award from the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) from Boehringer Ingelheim.

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personal data
SURNAME Fries, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brain researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert