Evgeni Ponimaskin - Curriculum Vitae#


Scientific Curriculum
  • Since 2008 Head of Department 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.
  • 2003 Habilitation with Venia legendi in Physiology at the Medical Faculty of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen.
  • 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." Free University Berlin, Germany
  • 1992-1994 Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Free University Berlin, Germany
  • 1992 Diploma in Biology at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
  • 1991 Diploma in Biology, Novosibirsk State University

Academic Distinctions
  • 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)
  • 1990 - 1991 DAAD scholarship

Grant Reviewer Activities

Grant reviewer for DFG; Wellcome Trust; EU (COST-Actions); NSF (National Science Foundation), USA; Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN), Poland; Schram-Stiftung, Germany; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany and FWF Wissenschaftsfond, Austria

Teaching and Academic Self-Administration
  • since 2008 Teaching and organization of the teaching modules "Physical and Physiological Basics of Medicine" at the Hannover Medical School
  • since 2009 Teaching as part of the International PhD Program at the Center for Systems Neuroscience (CSN)
  • since 2013 Chair of the PhD examination committee "Physiology and Biochemistry" at the MHH
  • since 2022 Member of the PhD Committee "Systems Neuroscience" at the Hannover Graduate School for Neurosciences, Infection Medicine, and Veterinary Sciences (HGNI)

Supervision of Early Career Researchers

M.Sc. thesis supervised: 10
Doctoral candidates supervised: 27
Habilitation supervised: 2

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