Sten Grillner

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor and Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institute

EDUCATION:
• 1962 Med kand
• 1969 Dr of Medicine – PhD in Neurophysiology, University of Göteborg
• 1971 Visiting Scientist, Academy of Science Moscow – 5 months

MEMBERSHIPS:
• 1990- Member of Academiae Europaeae
• 1993- Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Science. 2004- Chairman Section for Biology & member of Governing Board of RSAS
• 1997- Member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• 2004- Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2006- Honorary member of the Spanish Medical Academy
• 2006- Member Institute of Medicine of the National Academy, USA
• 1989- Associate of the Neurosciences Research Program (NRP) Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla
• 1988- Member of Rodin Remediation Academy, member of council (1997)

EDITORSHIPS:
• Current Opinion in Neurobiology
• Behavioural and Brain Sciences
• European Journal of Neuroscience (receiving editor)
• Network-computation in Neural Systems
• Acta Physiologica Scandinavica (advisory board)
• International Journal of Neural Systems
• Neuron
• Brain Research
• Brain Research Review
• Pflügers Archives
• Behavioural Brain Research
• Physiological Reviews (1989-1995)
• Physiology (NIPS)
• Neuroscience Letters

AWARDS:
• 1977 Florman award, Royal Swedish Academy of Science
• 1983 Grass lecturer to the Society of Neuroscience, Boston
• 1990 Greater Nordic prize of Eric Fernstrom, Lund
• 1993 Bristol-Myers Squibb award for Distinguished achievements in Neuroscience Research, New York
• 2002 Reeve/Irvine Research Medal, New York
• 2003 Neuronal Plasticity Prize, Fondation Ipsen, Paris
• 2005 Ralph Gerard prize, Society for Neuroscience, Washington
• 2006 Ragnar Granit Prize, Finland
• 2007 Linnéan Zoology Award, Lund
• 2008 The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, US/Norway

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
To understand the basic mode of operation of the nervous system knowledge is required on all levels from the molecular and cellular to the network and systems levels. The research at the Division of Neurophysiology (The Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology) is directed towards an understanding of certain aspects of the cellular and network level and how the different types of neurons combine to form networks which underlie basic modes of coordination such as control of body orientation (posture) and locomotion.

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