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| Membership Number: | 4115 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ub.edu/brainlab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present ICREA Academia Distinguished Professor, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Catalonia
- 2010 - present Full Professor [Catedrático], University of Barcelona
- 2009 - present Director, Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3C) of the University of Barcelona
- 2003 - present Principal Investigator, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Excellence Group of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 2009 - 2011 Coordinator – Spanish Network on Cognitive Neuroscience of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- 2004 - 2005 Fellow, Hanse Institute for Advance Study (Delmenhorst, Germany), 6 months
- 1999 - 1999 Senior researcher, Cognitive Brain Research Unit (CBRU), Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki (Finland) , 6 months
- 1997 - 2010 Associate Professor, University of Barcelona
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroimaging
- Event-related brain potentials
- Electroencephalograpy
- Auditory plasticity
- Auditory neuroscience
- Attention
- Auditory perception
- Cognitive neuroscience
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Keynote speaker. 17th World Congress of Psychophysiology, Hiroshima (Japan)
- 2014 Keynote speaker. Neuronous 2014, Krakow (Poland)
- 2012 Opening lecture Academic Year 2012-2013 at University of Barcelona: "The concept of stimulus representation in cognitive neuroscience"
- 2011 ICREA Academia Distinguished Professor, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Catalonia
- 2011 Keynote speaker. XI ICON – International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
- 2011 - present Honorary Editorial Board, Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
- 2007 Sponsor of the ceremony granting the honoris causa doctorate to Prof. Risto Näätänen at University of Barcelona
- 2000 - 2006 Treasurer – Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies (FEPS)
- 2001 - 2004 President – Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología (SEPF)
- 1996 Membership – Cognitive Neuroscience Society
