Alexei Verkhratsky#

Full CV

Date of birth: July 30, 1961
Nationality: UK/Ukraine
Title: MD, PhD, Dr. Sci.

Department:

(1) Professor of Neurophysiology
Faculty of Life Sciences
The University of Manchester
1.124 Stopford Building
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

(2) Head of the Department
Department of Molecular Neurophysiology
Institute of Experimental Medicine, ACSR
Prague, Czech Republic

Current appointments:

Professor of Neurophysiology; Head of the Department

Higher Education and academic degrees:

• 1993: Doctor of Medical Sciences, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Physiology, "Mechanisms of calcium signal generation in neurones and glial cells".
• 1983-1986: PhD, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology: Physiology, "Tetrodotoxin sensitive ionic currents in the membrane of isolated cardiomyocytes"
• 1977 - 1983: MD, Kiev Medical Institute

Membership of academic societies:

• The Physiological Society, UK (1994)
• 1994 - 2006 Member of International Committee
• 2002 - 2006 Member of Council
• Member of Academia Europaea (2003)
• Chairman of the Physiology and Medicine Section of the Academia Europaea; member of the Council (2006 - )
• Member of Council of Federation of European Physiological Societies, FEPS (2007 - )
• Society for Neuroscience (2005)

Appointments:

• March 1st, 2002 - present: Professor of Neurophysiology at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• March 15th, 2007 - present: Head of the Department of Molecular Neurophysiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, ACSR, Prague, Czech Republic
• June 1st, 2002 - August 2004: Chairman of the Division of Neuroscience at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• July 1st 2001 - February 28, 2002: Reader in Neurophysiology at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• September 1999 - June 2001: Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• August 1995 - August 1999: Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Cellular Neuroscience in the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
• December 1993 - August 1995: Head of the Research Group of Cellular Neuroscience, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev
• May 1993 - September 1993: guest scientist at the Department of Cellular Neuroscience of the Max-Delbruck Center of Molecular Medicine, Berlin
• May 1992 - August 1995: deputy director of the International Center of Molecular Physiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• February 1992 - May 1992: guest scientist at the Research Group of Cellular Neurophysiology, Max-Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
• 1990 - 1993: Senior Research Scientist at the Department of General Physiology of the Nervous System, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology
• 1989 - 1990: Research Scientist in the Institute of Neurobiology, Heidelberg University
• 1986 - 1989: Junior Research Scientist at the Department of General Physiology of the Nervous System, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev

PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Editorial

• From 2000 Editor-in-chief of Cell Calcium
• From 2009 Editor-in Chief of Membrane Transport & Signalling - Wiley Interdisciplinary

Reviews' (Wiley and Sons).

• Member of Editorial board of Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (2005 - ).
• Member of Editorial board of Journal of Molecular & Cellular Medicine (2005 - 2009).
• Member of Editorial board of Acta Physiologica (Oxford) (2006 - ).
• Member of Editorial board of Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology (2006 - ).
• Member of Editorial board of Glia (2008 - ).
• Member of Editorial board of Frontiers in Neuropharmacology (2009 - ).
• Member of Editorial board of Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2009 - ).
• Receiving Editor and Member of Editorial board of Cell Death and Disease (2010 - ).
• Member of Editorial board of Purinergic Signalling (2010 - ).

2009 – Guest Editor of Trends in Neurosciences for the paper series on purinergic signalling in the Nervous system (with M. Abbracchio, G. Burnstock & H. Zimmermann). Reviewing

Alexei Verkhratsky regularly acts as an expert referee for a range of scientific journals (Science, Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology, Journal of Physiology (London), Trends in Neurosciences, Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, Glia, Neuroscience, Journal of Neurochemistry, European Journal of Neuroscience, FEBS Letters, European Journal of Pharmacology, British Medical Journal, etc.).

Membership in grant funding panels

• 2004 - present: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft SFB/SPP panels
• 2008 - present: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany