Director
| Personal data | |
| Name: | Gilles Laurent |
| Date of birth: | August 9, 1960 |
| Place of birth: | Casablanca, Morocco |
| Nationality: | French |
| Complete CV | |
| Education | |
| 1989 | Summer Course in Computational Neuroscience, Woods Hole, USA |
| 1985 | Ph.D. in Neuroethology, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France |
| 1985 | Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine, National School of Veterinary Medicine, Toulouse, France |
| 1978 | Baccalaureat Serie C (Mathematics and Physics), A+ (TB) |
| 1975 - 1978 | Lycée P de Fermat, Toulouse, France |
| Academic Positions | |
| 2015 - | Professor, Neural Information Processing, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2008 - | Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2002 - 2010 | Lawrence A. Hanson Professor of Biology and CNS, Caltech, Pasadena,USA |
| 2000 - 2002 | Professor of Biology and CNS, Caltech, Pasadena, USA |
| 1996 - 2000 | Associate Professor of Biology and CNS, Caltech, Pasadena, USA |
| 1990 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Biology and CNS, Caltech, Pasadena, USA |
| 1987 - 1990 | Royal Society Locke Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 1985 - 1987 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Cambridge, UK |
| Research Experience | |
| 2008 | Visiting Scholar, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France |
| 2005 | Visiting Scholar, Clark Center, Stanford University, USA |
| 1990 - | Professor, Caltech, Pasadena, USA |
| 1985 - 1990 | Postdoctoral Research, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 1983 | Visitor, Technische Universität München, Germany |
| 1983 | Visitor, Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Huber Department, Seewiesen, Germany |
| 1982 - 1985 | Pre-doctoral Research, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France |
| 1982 | Visitor, Laboratory for Energy-related Health Research, UC Davis, USA |
