Pierre Paoletti#
| Membership Number: | 4911 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ibens.ens.fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since January 1st, 2019: Director, Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS, Paris, France). Research institute in Life Sciences affiliated to ENS, CNRS and INSERM
- Since September 1st, 2017: Director, Departement of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris, France)
- Summer 2013 Invited Research Scholar, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley (USA). Lab Pr. Ehud Isacoff
- Since 2007 Research Director (Directeur de Recherche) at INSERM (France). Institut de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS)
- Since 2005 Team leader, Institut de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS). Team 'Glutamate Receptors & Excitatory Synapses'
- 1999 Research Associate (Chargé de Recherche) at INSERM (France). Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, ENS, Paris, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurotransmitter receptor structure & function
- Molecular pharmacology
- Optogenetics and optopharmacology
- Molecular and cellular neuroscience
- Synaptic transmission and plasticity
- Ion channel biophysics
- Protein engineering
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Member of Academia Europaea
- 2017 Grand Prix Lamonica de Neurologie, Académie des Sciences (France) http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Laureats/laureat-2017-du-prix-lamonica-de-neurologie-pierre-paoletti.html
- 2016 ERC Advanced Grant Award
- 2010 FENS Young Investigator Award http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/awards/2010/3.html
- 2010 & 2014 Prime d’Excellence Scientifique (PES), INSERM
- 2009 & 2013: ‘Equipe FRM’ Award (Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale)
