Rufin Vogels#
| Membership Number: | 3500 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000666/50000669/50488669 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - Professor, Medical School, KU Leuven
- 2001 - 2005, Senior Lecturer, Medical School, K.U.Leuven
- 1994 - 2001, Lecturer, Medical School, K.U.Leuven
- 1989 - 2000 Research Associate (tenure position), National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium)
- 1986 - 1989, Senior Research Fellow, National Research Council of Belgium
- 1985 - 1986, Postdoctoral Fellow, M.I.T., Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- 1982 - 1986, Research Fellow, National Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO; Belgium)
Fields of Scholarship
- Electrophysiology (single cell recordings) in awake, behaving monkeys
- Visual perception, object recognition, visual learning
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Visual Psychophysics
Honours and Awards
- 2006, Baron Van Gysel de Meise Award
- 2011, Cercle Gaulois-Thierry Speeckaert Award
- 2012- President Belgian Society for Neuroscience
- 2011- President Belgian Brain Council
- 2011 - Elected member International Neuropsychological Symposium
