Sonja Hofer#
| Membership Number: | 7202 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/groups/hofer-lab |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4921-8521 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Professor of Neuroscience, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
- 2018 - 2020 Associate Professor, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London, UK
- 2013 - 2017 Assistant Professor, Biozentrum, University Basel, Switzerland
- 2011 - 2013 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, UCL, UK
- 2007 - 2011 Postdoctoral research fellow, University College London, UK
- 2006 - 2007 Postdoctoral research fellow, Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) of Neurobiology, Munich-Martinsried, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Visual neuroscience
- Decision-making
- Instinctive behaviours
- Systems neuroscience
- Circuits neuroscience
- Computational neuroscience
- Fear behaviour
- Learning & memory
- Visual perception
- Visually-guided behaviour
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Wellcome Investigator Award
- 2013 Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize, Hertie Foundation
- 2013 ERC Starting Grant
- 2011 Wellcome Beit Prize
- 2011 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship
- 2010 University College London Excellence Fellowship
- 2007 Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
