Personal information
Biography
Present occupation:
Honorary Invited Researcher, Department of medicine and Surgery, Universita degli Studi di Parma
Emeritus Professor, Medical School, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven
Address: Avenue Centrale 9, 1950 Kraainem, Belgium
Born: 4 November 1945, St. Niklaas, Belgium
Married - three children
Education:
M.D.: 1969, K.U.Leuven
Engineer (Applied Mathematics): 1974, U.C. Louvain
Ph.D. (Neurophysiology): 1975, K.U.Leuven
Career:
ERC recipient advanced ERC 323606 (Parietalaction) 2013-18
Invited researcher. University of Parma 2013-2019
Invited Professor at l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 2003-2009
Full Professor, Medical School, K.U.Leuven, 1986-2011
Professor (part time) L.U.C., 1987-1999
Professor, Medical School, K.U.Leuven, 1982-1986
Associated Lecturer, L.U.C., 1976-1987
Associated Lecturer, Medical School, K.U.Leuven, 1976-1982
Visiting Fellow, John Curtin School Medical Research Canberra, Autumn 1975
Senior Research Assistant, National Fund for Scientific Research, 1974-1979
Research Assistant, National Fund for Scientific Research, 1970-1974
Specialization:
(1) Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience
(2) Functional imaging: fMRI & PET
(3) Neurophysiology: single-cell recording & intracerebral recordings
(4) Artificial intelligence & neural networks
(5) Human & animal psychophysics
Memberships:
Editorial Board Experimental Brain Research 1989-2000
Editorial board Journal of Neuroscience 2011-2016
Member council of scientists HFSP 2006-2009
Member Academia Europaea 2007-
International Neuropsychology Symposium
European Dana Alliance for the Brain
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Society for Neuroscience
Optical Society of America
Corresponding member American Physiological Society
European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS)
European Neuroscience Association (ENA)
Forum of European Neuroscience societies (FENS)- member CARE committee (2005-2011)
Belgian Society for Neuroscience (Founding President)
Belgisch Genootschap voor Fundamentele en Klinische Fysiologie en Farmacologie (Past President)
Belgische Vereniging voor Electroencefalografie en Klinische Neurofysiologie (member of the board 2000-2008)
Scientific Board, Biophysics Institute, Rijksuniversiteit.Utrecht (up to 2005)
Scientific Board, Donders Foundation (up to 2010)
Scientific Board, Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation 1995-2008
Scientific board, Baillet Latour Biomedical Foundation 2017-2019
Shortlisted for membership in the Scientific Council of the ERC: November 2022
Awards:
Faes Foundation Prize 1994
Visiting fellow National Academy of Science China, 1993
Elected to the European Chair of the Collège de France 2006-2007
Doctor honoris causa Université de Mons 2011
Publications: 2 books, over 315 papers in internationally reviewed journals, including Science and Nature, spanning 50 years, and over 55 book chapters.