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Alexei Verkhratsky#

Title: MD, PhD, Dr. Sci.

Current appointments: Professor of Neurophysiology

Higher Education and academic degrees:

1993: Doctor of Medical Sciences, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Physiology, "Mechanisms of calcium signal generation in neurones and glial cells".
1983-1986: PhD, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology: Physiology, "Tetrodotoxin sensitive ionic currents in the membrane of isolated cardiomyocytes"
1977 - 1983: MD, Kiev Medical Institute

Honours:

2003 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
2006 - 2013 Chairman of the Physiology and Medicine Section of the Academia Europaea; Member of the Council
2012 Elected member of Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia, Spain
2012 Research Award of German Purine Club
2012 Elected member of European Dana Alliance for the Brain Initiatives (since 2015 Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives)
2013 Recipient of Dozor Visiting Scholar award, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
2013 Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2013 Elected member of Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina (The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina)
2016 - present Vice-Presidnet and Chairmen of the Class C (Life Science and Medicine) of the Academia Europaea
2016 Copernicus Gold medal and Copernicus Visiting Professor at the University of Ferrara
2017 Honorary adjunct professor at the Department on Physiology at Yeditepte University, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Elected member of Polish National Academy of Sciences
2018 Distinguished Professor of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
2018 Distinguished Professor of Jinan Unibersity, Guangzhou, China
2019 Honorary Professor of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
2019 Elected Corresponding Member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Membership of academic societies:

The Physiological Society, UK (1994 - 2010)
- 1994 - 2006 Member of International Committee
- 2002 - 2006 Member of Council
Member of Council of Federation of European Physiological Societies, FEPS (2007 - 2015)
American Society for Neuroscience, ASN (2011 -)
- 2012 - 2018: member of membership committee

Appointments:

March 1st, 2002 - present Professor of Neurophysiology at the Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
June 1st, 2002 - August 2004 Chairman of the Division of Neuroscience at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
July 1st 2001 - February 28, 2002 Reader in Neurophysiology at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
September 1999 - June 2001 Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
August 1995 - August 1999 Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Cellular Neuroscience in the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
December 1993 - August 1995 Head of the Research Group of Cellular Neuroscience, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev
May 1993 - September 1993 guest scientist at the Department of Cellular Neuroscience of the Max-Delbruck Center of Molecular Medicine, Berlin
May 1992 - August 1995 deputy director of the International Center of Molecular Physiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
February 1992 - May 1992 guest scientist at the Research Group of Cellular Neurophysiology, Max-Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
1990 - 1993 Senior Research Scientist at the Department of General Physiology of the Nervous System, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology
1989 - 1990 Research Scientist in the Institute of Neurobiology, Heidelberg University
1986 - 1989 Junior Research Scientist at the Department of General Physiology of the Nervous System, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kiev

Visiting/Honorary Appointments

September 2012 - present Adjunct director of Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience.
January 2011 - January 2016 Visitor Honorary Professor at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
May 2010 - present Visitor Professor/Consultant of the Basque Research Council (Ikerbasque)
March 15th, 2007 - June 2010 Visitor Professor; Head of the Department of Molecular Neurophysiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, ACSR, Prague, Czech Republic
October 2017 - present Honorary adjunct professor of the Department on Physiology at Yeditepte University, Istanbul, Turkey
May 2019 - present Honorary Visitor Professor of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
June 2019 - present Honorary Professor and Chair, Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province for Acupuncture & Chronobiology, Chengdu. University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Editorial

Editor in Chief of Cell Calcium (2000 - )
Deputy Editor-in Chief of Cell Death and Disease (2010 - 2018)
Receiving editor (Neuroscience) of Cell Death and Disease (2010 - )
Editor in Chief of Membrane Transport & Signalling - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (2010 - 2015).
Receiving Editor (Neuroscience) of Acta Physiologica (Oxford) (2018 - )
Member of Editorial board of Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (2005 - )
Member of Editorial board of Journal of Molecular & Cellular Medicine (2005 - 2009)
Member of Editorial board of Acta Physiologica (Oxford) (2006 - )
Member of Editorial board of Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology (2006 - )
Member of Editorial board of Glia (2008 - 2018)
Member of Editorial board of Frontiers in Neuropharmacology (2009 - 2014)
Member of Editorial board of Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2009 - 2014)
Member of Editorial board of Purinergic Signalling (2010 - )
Member of Editorial Board of ASN Neuro (2011 - 2019)
Member of Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neurodegeneration (2011 - 2014)
Member of Editorial Board of Advances in Neurobiology (2011 - )
Member of Editorial Board of Neuroscience Bulletin (2011 - )
Member of Editorial Board of Translational Neurosciences (2012 - )
Member of Editorial Board of European Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease (2015 - )
Member of Editorial Board of MedComm (2020 - )
Member of Editorial Board of FUNCTION (2020 - )

Reviewing

I regularly act as an expert referee for a range of scientific journals (Science, Journal of Neuroscience, Current Biology, Journal of Physiology (London), Trends in Neurosciences, Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, Glia, Neuroscience, Journal of Neurochemistry, European Journal of Neuroscience, FEBS Letters, European Journal of Pharmacology, British Medical Journal, etc.).

Membership in grant funding panels

2004 - 2012 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft SFB/SPP panels, Germany
2008 - 2010 Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
2011 member of the Panel for the Principal Investigator Programme of the Science Foundation Ireland
2011 - present member of the International Expert Council, The state fund for fundamental research, The Ukraine

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