Miklós Palkovits - Curriculum vitae#

EDUCATION:

• 1952 graduation - St. László High School and College, Budapest
• 1958 M.D. - Semmelweis Univ. Med. School, Budapest
• 1966 Ph.D. - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• 1972 D.Sc. - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

PRESENT POSITIONS:

• Professor Emeritus, Semmelweis University, Budapest
• Research Professor, Neuromorphological and Neuroendocrine Research Laboratory,
• Semmelweis University, Budapest
• Head: Human Brain Tissue Bank and Laboratory, Budapest

MEMBERSHIPS:

• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1990
• Academia Europaea, 1992

BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF POSITIONS HELD:

• Dept. of Anatomy, Semmelweis Univ. Med. School, Budapest
• 1955: Research Assistant; 1958: Assistant Professor; 1960: Lecturer;
• 1972: Associate Professor
• 1980: Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Neuromorphology
• 2003: Professor Emeritus, Research Professor at the Laboratory of Neuromorphology
• Experimental Medical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• 1963-1980 Research Associate, Chief of the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy
• 1980-1985 Scientific Adviser

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

• 1974 Rudolf Magnus Inst. for Pharmacology, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• 1977 University of California at San Diego, USA
• 1982 Mario Negri Inst. for Pharmacology, Milan, Italy
• 1996 Hans Selye Visiting Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA
• 2002 European “Center of Excellence Professorship”, Bratislava, Slovakia

VISITING SCIENTIST:

• 1968-1969: Rudolf Magnus Inst. for Pharmacology, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• 1972-1973, and 1975: Lab. of Clinical Sciences, NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA
• 1980-1997: Lab. of Cell Biology, NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA
• 1997-2006: Lab. of Genetics, NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

• Central European Journal of Biology
• Orvosképzés (Hungarian)
• Stress
• Progress in Neurobiology
• Acta Physiologica Hungarica
• Neuroscience Research Communications
• Neuroendocrinology
• Orvosi Hetilap (Hungarian/English)
• Clinical Neuroscience (English/Hungarian)
• Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica

AWARDS:

• Hungarian Academy Award, 1976
• Széchenyi Award (the highest scientific award in Hungary), 1991
• Rinecker Award and Gold Medal (Germany), 1993
• Albert Szent-Györgyi Award, 1995
• Semmelweis Award and Medal, 1997
• Harris Memorial Lecture, 1998
• Hans Selye Memorial Lecture, 1998
• Markusovszky Award, 2001
• Hemingway-Szabó Award, 2001
• Order of the Hungarian Republic, 2003
• National Institutes of Health Performance Award, 2004
• Ipolyi Arnold Award, 2005
• Leo Szilárd Award, 2006

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

• International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) (from 1993: member of the Gov. Council)
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (1994-2000: member of the Gov. Council)
• Association of Hungarian Anatomists and Histologists (1972-1978: General Secretary)
• International Society for Neuroendocrinology
• Anatomische Gesellschaft
• Society of Hungarian Endocrinologists
• Hungarian Neuroscience Society (1997-2000: President)
• Hungarian Association of Psychoneuropharmacology (member of the Gov. Council)
• International Society for the Investigation of Stress
• Hungarian Society for the Investigation of Pain

MAJOR FIELDS OF RESEARCH INTEREST:

• Neuroanatomy (neuronal pathways - chemical neuroanatomy)
• Neuroendocrinology (stress - neuropeptides - neurotransmitters)
• Central autonomic regulatory mechanisms: pain, thermoregulation, cardiovascular, food intake

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• 7 books, 80 book chapters, 83 proceedings
• 662 scientific (peer review) publications (impact factors: 1855.15; number of citations: 32216)

H-index: 92

• Among the "Most Cited 1000 Authors in Science (SCI)", 1982
• Among the "Most Cited 250 Primary Authors in Science (SCI)", 1986
• Citation Classics: 120th most cited neuroscientist, 1990
• Citation Classics: 297th most cited scientist in the world, 2004

LECTURES AND SEMINARS:

• 786 lectures/posters in 468 international meetings
• 269 seminars in 140 universities or research institutes

BUSINESS ADDRESS:
Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University, Budapest
Tüzoltó utca 58, 1094 Budapest, Hungary
phone: (36-1) 216-0488 or 215-6920, ext.3635
fax: (36-1) 218-1612