Evgeni Ponimaskin#
| Membership Number: | 7512 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mhh.de/cnp/members |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4570-5130 |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=ponimaskin&sort=date |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2008 Head of Cellular Neurophysiology at the Hannover Medical Scholl (MHH), permanent position
- 2002-2008 Head of an independent research group within the DFG Research Center "Molecular Physiology of the Brain" (CMBP) at the Medical Faculty of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Since February 2005 tenured after external evaluation
- 2000-2002 Research assistant and group leader at the Institute of Physiology, Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, University of Göttingen
- 1994-2000 Research assistant at SFB 366 "Cellular Signal Recognition and Transduction." Subproject: "Reversible palmitoylation of peripheral and integral membrane proteins"
Fields of Scholarship
- Role of post-translational protein modification (e.g., lipidation) in regulation of signal transduction in health and disease
- Role of serotonergic system in regulation of the brain functions at the cellular, network and systemic levels
- Development and application of the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based assay
- Role of serotonin receptors in neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders
- Molecular mechanisms regulating neuronal morphology and synaptic plasticity under physiological and pathological conditions
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Call to a W3 Professorship in Physiology (combined with the position of Institute Director) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Successfully retained at MHH
- 2022 Research Award of the Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V. (AFI)
- 2021 International Annika-Liese Research Award for outstanding neuroscientific research in the fields of depression, anxiety disorder and suicidality
- 2015 Call to a W3 Professorship in Cell Physiology combined with the position of Institute Director) at the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum. Successfully retained at MHH
- 2009 Call to a W3 Professorship in Neuropharmacology at the Faculty of Biology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Successfully retained at MHH
- 2008 Heisenberg Professorship "Physiology of Intracellular Signaling Networks" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 990 - 1991 DAAD scholarship
