!!Sonja Hofer - Curriculum Vitae
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__PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE__
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*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
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__EDUCATION__
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*2002 - 2006 PhD in Neurobiology, MPI of Neurobiology, Munich-Martinsried (summa cum laude)
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__HONORS / AWARDS__
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*2013 Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize, Hertie Foundation\\
*2011 Wellcome Beit Prize\\
*2007 Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
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__RESEARCH  GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS__
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*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
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__SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES__
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*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
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__RECENT NOTABLE INVITED LECTURES (SELECTION)__
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*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\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit shofer}][{ALLOW upload shofer}][{ALLOW comment All}]