Luis Puelles#
Email: | puelles 'at' um.es |
Membership Number: | 2396 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Section: | ORGANISMIC & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY |
Username: | lpuelles |
Elected: | 2006 |

Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1983 Full Prof. Human Anatomy & Embryology at University of Murcia
- 1972 - 1979 Various other teaching/research positions held in Univs. of Granada, Sevilla, Extremadura, Cadiz and Murcia (all in Spain)
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuroembryology and comparative neuromorphology
- Genetic and histogenetic regionalization of the brain in vertebrates
- Developmental and comparative neuroscience
- Role of differential gene expression patterns
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Invited Prof. at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris)
- 2001 — 2002 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin)
- 3 times invited speaker at the College de France (Paris)
- 1995 - 1997 President-elect of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience
- 1997 - 1999 President of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience
- 1995 - 2000Editorial Board of Brain, Behavior and Evolution
- 1997 - 2001 Editorial Board of Journal of Comparative Neurology
- 1998 Editorial Board of Journal of Neurocytology
- 2001 Editorial Board of European Journal of Anatomy
- 2003 Editorial Board of Zoological Science
- 2006 Member of Academia Europaea