Guillén Fernández - Biography#

Guillén Fernández is professor for cognitive neuroscience at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen and director of the Donders Institute. He obtained his medical degree, doctorate, and habilitation at Bonn University. He received full training in clinical neurology and cognitive neurosciences in Bonn, Magdeburg, and Stanford before becoming in 2002 a founding principal investigator of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging.

His area of research is human cognitive neuroscience in which he studies the brain basis of memory, emotion, and their interactions. He applies an interdisciplinary approach integrating cognitive neuroimaging, genetics, pharmacology and diverse clinical disciplines. He is author of more than 200 articles in renowned journals including Science , Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Molecular Psychiatry, and PNAS. He is elected member of the Memory Disorder Research Society. He received the Richard-Jung Award of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology, the Vici Award of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, the Radboud Science Award, and an Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council. He trained more than 30 PhD students and postdocs, of which more than two thirds continue to succeed in academia.