Previous Fora / 2011
GULYÁS, Balázs
Executive Director, World Science Forum
Balázs Gulyás is a professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and pursued his first university studies in medicine and physics at the universities Semmelweis and Eötvös Loránd in Budapest, followed by university studies in philosophy, law and neurobiology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where he obtained a PhD in neurosciences. He made his post-doctoral training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and at the University of Oxford. Since the late eighties he has been affiliated with Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute here his main field of activity is related tofunctional and molecular neuroimaging. Gulyás has published nine books and over 200 papers in scientific journals in the fields of neurosciences. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Belgian Academy of Medical Sciences.