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Tamás F. Freund (2009)

Tamás F. Freund (born June 14, 1949 in Zirc ) is a Hungarian neuroscientist . His research focus is the synaptic and molecular organization, functional architecture and physiology of neural networks in the cortex , especially the so-called "neural microcircuits" ( neuronal microcircuits ).

Life

Tamás Freund studied biology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest from 1978 to 1983 , where he defended his doctoral thesis in neuroscience on interneurons in the cerebral cortex of cats, rats and monkeys in 1984 . During his studies he was a student assistant at the 1st Institute for Anatomy of the Medical Faculty of Semmelweis University (1980–1983) and a research fellow at the Institute for Pharmacology at the University of Oxford . Then Freund was a research assistant at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the 1st Institute for Anatomy at Semmelweis University (1983-1989), as well as a research assistant at the Institute for Experimental Psychology (January to May 1985) and at the Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit of the Institute for Pharmacology (1986–1988) from the University of Oxford.

In 1990 he was appointed head of the functional neuroanatomy department of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest and was appointed deputy director of the institute in 1994. Since 2002 he has held the position of director of the Institute for Experimental Medicine. In addition to his positions in national research institutions, he has been Professor and Head of the Department of Neuroscience at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest since 2000 .

In 1998 Freund became a corresponding member and in 2004 a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Furthermore friend since 2000 Member of the Academia Europaea , since 2001 a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , and in 2001 a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and 2014 as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences selected. He is also a member of the Society for Neuroscience , was Chairman of the Committee for Neurosciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1997 to 2003, from 1998 to 2004 a member of the Presidium of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), from 2004 to 2006 President of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), 2009 to 2013 President of the Hungarian Neuroscience Society and 2013/2014 member of the Advisory Board for Science and Technology of the European Commission President.

Tamá's friend is married and has two children.

Awards

Freund received the War Cortical Kudos Award from the Cajal Club, the oldest neuroscientific society in the United States, in the Explorer (1991) and Discoverer (1998) levels . From the Hungarian Academy of Sciences he received the Academy Prize in 1997 and the Honoris Causa Pro Sciencia Gold Medal in 2003, the Ábrahám Ambrus Prize from the Attila József University in 1999, and the Semmelweis Prize from the Semmelweis University in 2007 Prize and the Környei Memorial Prize from the University of Pécs in 2012.

In 2000 Freund received the interdisciplinary Bolayi Prize, which was awarded for the first time. In 2007 he was awarded the highest state science prize in Hungary, the Széchenyi Prize , and has been the recipient of the Hungarian Order of Merit in the Commander class since 2011 . In 2008 he received the Prima Primissima Prize and in 2011 he was awarded the Brain Prize together with Péter Somogyi and György Buzsáki .

Freund has been an honorary citizen of Budapest since 2016 .

Works (selection)

Tamás Freund has published over 250 scientific articles to date and has a Hirsch factor of 79. He is also a member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals, such as Neuroscience (since 1991), Experimental Brain Research (since 1992), and the European Journal of Neuroscience (since 1998) or the Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy (since 2006).

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SURNAME Friend, Tamás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friend, Tamás F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Zirc