Menno Witter#
| Membership Number: | 6314 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ntnu.edu/kavli/witter-group#/view/abouthttps://www.ntnu.edu/employees/menno.witter |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0285-1637 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Professor of Neuroscience NTNU & Director of the Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience, Norway
- 2016 - 2019 Visiting Professor, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition centre, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2018 - 2022 Visiting professor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- 2017 - 2019 Visiting Science Scholar, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute John Hopkins, Baltimore USA
- 1996 - 2006 Professor of Anatomy & Embryology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1999 - 2006 Director of the Research Institute for Clinical Neuroscience (ICEN), and the Interfacultary Research Institute for Neuroscience (ION), VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1999 - 2006 Director of the Graduate School Neuroscience Amsterdam (ONWA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1985 - 1996 Assistant professor Anatomy, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Academic education
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Comparative neuroanatomy
- Functional neuroanatomy of the hippocampal system
- Learning and memory
- Structural neurobiology
Honours and Awards
- Member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab)
- Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science (Det Norske Vitensskaps-Akademi)
- Member of the European Dana Alliance for the Brain
- 2016 Olav Thon Foundation International Research Award
- Honorary Doctorate UC Louvain, Belgium
