Gáspár Jékely#
| Membership Number: | 7251 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/gaspar-jekely |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8496-9836 |
| Bluesky: | @jekely@biologists.social |
| Publication Link: | https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research-groups/gaspar-jekely/publications |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 Professor of Molecular Organismal Biology, Head of Department, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University
- 2017 - 2025 Professor of Neuroscience, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter
- 2007 - 2017 Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
- 2004 - 2007 FEBS Postdoctoral fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2003 Junior fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary
- 2000 - 2003 EMBO Postdoctoral fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Neuromodulation
- Photoreceptors
- Ciliated larvae
- Neuroscience
- Neuropeptides
- Connectomics
- Evolution
Honours and Awards
- 2023 EMBO Membership
- 2021 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2019 Wellcome Trust Investigator Award
- 2012 John Kendrew Award, EMBL
- 2010 ERC Starting Grant
- 2004-2006 FEBS Long Term Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2003-2004 Junior Fellowship of the Collegium Budapest
- 2000-2002 EMBO Long Term Fellowship
- 2002 EMBO science writing prize
- 2000 Young Researchers’ Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1995-2000 PhD Fellowship, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 1999 Qualitas Biologica Hungarica Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
