Balázs Gulyás

Balázs Gulyás (born 26 June 1956) is a Hungarian neurobiologist.

Personalia

Gulyás is a Hungarian born neurobiologist based, since 1988, in Stockholm, working at the Karolinska Institute.

Since 2013, while keeping his professorship at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, he has been one of the founding professors of the Imperial College London- Nanyang Technological University's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore where he is responsible for Translational Neuroscience and is th
Scientific Director of Neuroscience and Mental Health

At NTU, he is the founding director of the university's Centre for Neuroimaging Research at NTU (CeNReN). He has also a visiting professorship at the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London. Gulyás received his university degrees from Semmelweis University from which he graduated as Doctor of Medicine (MD) and from the Catholic University of Leuven where he obtained a BA (1982) and an MA (1984) in Philosophy (Higher Institute of Philosophy) and a PhD in neurobiology (1988, Faculty of Medicine). He pursued studies in physics at Budapest's Eotvos Lorand University (1976-1981) and in canon law and law at the Catholic University of Leuven (1984-1988).

Work

Gulyás' main research interest is in basic neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience. He published ten books, over 35 book-chapters and over 200 research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.

He was a guest professor, among others, of the Collège de France, and is a faculty member of th
Parmenides Foundation
He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 1995), the Academia Europaea (where he is a member of the Council and the Board of Trustees) and th
Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine
He co-founded the World Science Forum series.

Publications

His books include:

* Gulyás, B. (ed.) ''The Brain-Mind Problem. Philosophical and Neurophysiological Approaches''. Leuven and Assen: Leuven University Press and Van Gorcum, 1987. p. XI+119.
* Gulyás, B., Ottoson, D., and Roland, P. E. (eds.) ''Functional Organization of the Human Visual Cortex''. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993. p. 391. .
* Gulyás, B. and Müller-Gärtner, H. W. (eds.) ''Positron emission tomography: A critical assessment of recent trends''. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1998. p. 482.
* Pléh, C., Kovács, G. and Gulyás, B. (eds.) ''Cognitive Neuroscience''. Budapest, Osiris Press, 2003. 832 p. .

* Kraft, E., Gulyás, B. and Pöppel, E. (eds.) ''Neural Correlates of Thinking''. Springer Verlag, 2008.

* Vasbinder, J.W. and Gulyás, B. ''Cultural Patterns and Neurocognitive Circuits''. World Scientific, 2016. Pp. 212.

References

External links

Balazs Gulyás's LKCMedicine website

Balazs Gulyas
on the website of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HAS.

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1956 births
Living people
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian neuroscientists
People educated at the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma
Catholic University of Leuven alumni