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Curriculum Vitae
Attila SíkProfessor of Cellular Neuroscience
Address: Attila Sík
University of Birmingham, Medical School
Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 121 414 6018
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 7625
Email: a.sik at bham.ac.uk
Academic degrees
Diploma in Biology and Chemistry (Kossuth Lajos University, Hungary, 1991)
Ph.D. in Neurobiology (Semmelweis Medical School, Hungary 1997)
MBA (Warwick Business School, UK, expected in 2012)
Professional experience:
1987-1991: Student Res. Assistant, Dept.Anatomy and Embriology, Med. School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
1988 (July-Aug) Junior Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tihany, Hungary
1991-1992: Research Fellow, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
1993-1996: Research Fellow, Rutgers University, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Newark, NJ, USA
1995- 1999: Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2000- 2005 Assistant Professor, Laval University, Dept. Psychiatry, Québec, Canada
2005-2008 Associate Professor, Laval University, Dept. Psychiatry, Québec, Canada
2006- Adjunct Professor, McGill University, Dept. Anatomy and Cell biology, Québec, Canada
2007- Guest Professor, Yanshan University, China
2007- Professor, University of Birmingham, Dept. Neurophysiology, UK
2008- Adjunct Professor, Laval University, Dept. Psychiatry, Québec, Canada
Special courses taken:
1996 Genetic engineering, Halle, Germany
1999 Cryo-electron microscopy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1999 Cryo-electron microscopy, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2002 Electron tomography, Albany, USA
2003 Electron tomography and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, San Francisco, USA
2004 Multiphysics modeling (FEMLAB), Ottawa, Canada
2009 Structural & Computational Biomedical Informatics and Cryo-EM workshop: single particle reconstruction, South Mimms, UK
2009 Medici Training Programme, UK (Entrepreneurship skills, intelectual property)
Awards and prices:
1988 Young Investigator Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1992-93 For the Hungarian Science Scholarship
1996-97 For the Hungarian Science Scholarship
1997 The Young Investigator Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1998-2001 Bólyai Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1999 Junior Chamber International, Science Award
2001-2005 Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec, Research Award