Sonja Hofer - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2020 - Professor of Neuroscience, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College, UK
  
• 2018 - 2020 Associate Professor, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
  
• 2013 - 2017 Assistant Professor, Biozentrum, University Basel, Switzerland
  
• 2011 - 2013 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, UCL, UK
  
• 2007 - 2011 Postdoctoral research fellow, University College London, UK
  
• 2006 - 2007 Postdoctoral research fellow, Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) of Neurobiology, Munich-Martinsried, Germany

• 2002 - 2006 PhD in Neurobiology, MPI of Neurobiology, Munich-Martinsried (summa cum laude)

• 2013 Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize, Hertie Foundation
  
• 2011 Wellcome Beit Prize
  
• 2007 Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society

• 2023 - 2028 Gatsby Initiative Grant (co-PI, £ 500K per PI)
  
• 2023 - 2027 Wellcome Discovery Award (£ 5.66M, co-PI)
  
• 2020 - 2026 Wellcome Investigator Award (£ 2.25M, single PI)
  
• 2017 - 2026 International Brain Laboratory Consortium Grant Simons Foundation / Wellcome, shared by 20 laboratories (total $ 5M Simons Foundation, £ 11.6M Wellcome)
  
• 2016 - 2018 Swiss National Science Foundation Project Grant (single PI, £ 516,000)
  
• 2015 - 2017 Velux Foundation Grant (single PI, £ 516,000)
  
• 2013 - 2019 ERC Starting Grant (single PI, € 1.5 M)
  
• 2011 - 2013 Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship (single PI, £ 810,000)
  
• from 2012 Several fellowships for postdoctoral researchers in my research group: EMBO (Adil Khan, Antonin Blot), Marie Curie (Jasper Poort, Grace Lindsay), Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship (André Marques Smith, Sara Mederos)
  
• 2010 - 2013 University College London Excellence Fellowship
  
• 2008 - 2010 EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship
  
• 2007 - 2008 Feodor Lynen research fellowship, Humboldt Foundation

• President Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme (2023 - 2024)
  
• Chair FENS Brain Conferences Committee (2023 -)
  
• Member Wellcome Neuroscience Mental Health shortlisting panel (2024)
  
• Departmental Graduate Tutor SWC, UCL (2023 -)
  
• Member Scientific Advisory Board for the Ernst Struengmann Institute, Frankfurt, Germany (2023 -)
  
• Member Scientific Advisory Council for the Allen Institute for Brain Science MindScope Program (2021 - 2024)
  
• Member Scientific Advisory Board for European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Epigenetics and Neurobiology, Rome, Italy (2020 -)
  
• Member Scientific Advisory Board for Aix Marseille University NeuroMarseille (2019 -)
  
• Regular lecturer at various international courses and summer schools for experimental neuroscience (e.g. CSHL Visual Systems Course; CSHL Imaging of the Nervous System Course; Experimental Neuroscience Summer School; Romania, Cajal Behaviour and Neural Circuits Course; Cajal Interacting with Neural Circuits Course)
  
• Elected Vize Chair and Chair for the Gordon Research Conferences on Thalamocortical Interactions in Ventura, US in 2020 and Lucca, Italy in 2022, respectively
  
• Main organizer of the conference on Predictive Processing in the Brain at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, April 2019
  
• Member Athena Swan Committee SWC (2018 -)
  
• Member International Brain Laboratory (2017 -)
  
• Main organizer and Program Committee Chair for Swiss Society of Neuroscience Meeting 2017 in Basel
  
• Executive Council member of the Swiss Society of Neuroscience 2015 - 2017
  
• Co-chair of Histology and Publication Working Groups, International Brain Lab Initiative
  
• Organized Symposia at the FENS Forum 2012 and 2016 and at the Winter Neuroscience Meeting 2014 and 2018 Soelden, Austria
  
• Review Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  
• Regular peer-review for Nature, Science, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Elife and others; Grant review for ERC, DFG, Wellcome, SNSF and others

• 2024 PLENARY LECTURE, Gordon Research Conference on Thalamocortical Interactions
  
• 2023 Stanford University, US, virtual
  
• 2023 Lake Conference on Sensation and Action, Thun, Switzerland
  
• 2023 Sunposium MPI Florida, US
  
• 2022 Yale University, US, virtual
  
• 2022 Ascona Circuits Meeting, Switzerland
  
• 2022 PLENARY LECTURE, Bernstein Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Berlin
  
• 2022 UCL Neuroscience Symposium
  
• 2021 Hendrickson Lecture, University of Washington, US, virtual
  
• 2021 PLENARY LECTURE, Japanese Neuroscience Meeting, virtual
  
• 2021 University of Chicago, US, virtual
  
• 2021 University of Louisville, US, virtual
  
• 2021 New York University, Center for Neural Science, US, virtual
  
• 2020 University of California Santa Barbara, US, virtual
  
• 2020 Cambridge University, UK, virtual
  
• 2020 Harvard University, Center for Brain Science, virtual
  
• 2019 MIT, invited Lecture, Boston, US
  
• 2019 Ascona Circuits Meeting, Switzerland
  
• 2019 PLENARY LECTURE French Neuroscience Meeting, Marseille