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

Personalia

Gulyás is a Hungarian born neurobiologist based, since 1988, in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

, working at the

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally ...

and while keeping his professorship at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, since 2012 he has been one of the founding professors of the

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1981, it is also the second oldest autonomous university in the country. The university is organised across numerous colleges and schools, includi ...

's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore where he is responsible for Translational Neuroscience and for the university's Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre CONIC (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/conic). Also, since 1 May 2023 he has been the President of the Hungarian Research Network HUN-REN. 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 Semmelweis University (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Semmelweis Egyetem'', ) is a research-led medical school in Budapest, Hungary, founded in 1769. With six faculties and a doctoral school it covers all aspects of medical and health sciences. ...

from which he graduated as Doctor of Medicine (MD) and from the

Catholic University of Leuven University of Leuven or University of Louvain (; ) may refer to: * Old University of Leuven (1425–1797) * State University of Leuven (1817–1835) * Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) * Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or KU Leuven (1968 ...

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). In 2000 he obtained his BD (bachelor of divinity) degree in theology from Heythrop College / the University of Stockholm and in 2022 a CHEMS (mathematics) from the Open University.

Work

Gulyás' main research interest is in basic neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience. He published fifteen books, over 35 book-chapters and over 300 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journal

He was a guest professor, among others, of the

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, and is a faculty member of th
Parmenides Foundation
He is a member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

(since 1995), the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

(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. He has been a member of the council (2010–2016) and the Board of Trustees (2014–2018) of Aademia Europae

where he is now the Chair of the Section of Physiology and Neuroscienc

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gulyas, Balazs 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