John Van Opstal#
| Membership Number: | 4595 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mbfys.ru.nl/~johnvo |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - now Director Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Fac. Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2010 - now Chair in Biophysics at the Faculty of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2010 - now Full professor of Biophysics
- 2005 - 2010 Honorary professor in Systems Neuroscience at the Department of Biophysics
- 1998 - 2005 Associate professor at the Department of Biophysics
- 1990 - 1998 Assistant professor at the Department of Biophysics
- 1988 - 1990 Postdoc at the Neurology Dept. at Zürich University, Switzerland
- 1984 - 1988 PhD at the Department of Biophysics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurophysiology
- Single-cell recordings in macaque auditory and visuomotor midbrain, brainstem and cortex
- Psychophysics
- Eye-head gaze control
- Multisensory integration
- Sound localization
- Auditory perception
- Spatial awareness
- Vestibular system
- Neurotechnology
- Cochlear implants
- Sensorineural feedback
- Neuro-morphic robotics
- Computational neuroscience
- Neural population modeling of the eye-head gaze-control system and the auditory system
- Impaired hearing
- Cochlear implants
- Hearing aids
- Bone-anchored hearing devices
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2016 Personal ERC Advanced Grant (2017 - 2022): "ORIENT" (2.6M€; 2 PhD's, 3 postdocs, technician, PI)
- 2015 Technical Science Foundation (STW) Perspective programme NeuroCIMT (OtoControl project, 500k€, 1 PhD, 1.2 postdoc)
- 2013 EU Innovative Doctoral Programme grant (3.5M€) for "HealthPAC" project at Donders Institute (14 PhD students)
- 2013 EU Innovative Network grant fot "iCARE" (1 postdoc, 1 PhD for Biophysics)
- 2012 EU Innovative Network grant for "NETT" (3 PhD's for Biophysics)
- 2012 and 2017 Research grants from Advanced Bionics, Hannover (2 PhD's)
- 2005 Personal VICI research grant (1.5 M€) from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; 2 PhDs, 2 postdocs)
- 1998 Human Frontiers Science grant "MISOB" (1.5M US$) with Doug Munoz (Queens Univ, Kingston), Alex Meredith (Richmond, Va), Mary Behan (Wisconsin), and Gary Paige (Rochester, NY).
- 2010-2017 more than 9M€ on research grants in open competition, national and international.
