Pascal Fries (born January 28, 1972) is a German neurophysiologist.

Vita

Pascal Fries was born in

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. He studied medicine from 1991 to 1993 at the

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and from 1993 at the

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

Frankfurt am Main, where he completed his medical studies in 1998 with the state examination. For his doctoral thesis, he worked from 1993 to 1998 in the department of Prof.

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at the

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in Frankfurt and received his PhD in 2000 from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. From 1999 to 2001 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Desimone in the

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in Bethesda in the

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. From 2001 to 2009 he was Principal Investigator at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging of the

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century D ...

in the

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, where he also held a professorship from 2008 to 2024. In 2008 he became a scientific member of the

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and began in 2009 the work as managing director of the

Ernst Strüngmann Institute The Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society (ESI) is an independent research institute financed by Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann, German entrepreneurs, and named after their father Dr. Ernst Strüngm ...

(ESI) for

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in collaboration with the Max Planck Society in Frankfurt. Since 1st of January 2024, Pascal Fries is no longer an employee of the

Honors and awards

*1991–1998: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation *1999–2001: Postdoctoral membership at the German National Academic Foundation (BASF) *2000: Graduate (

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) at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, medical specialty *2001: Award for the best dissertation of 2000,

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

, medical specialty *2003: „VIDI“ Award for career development from the'Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) *2006: EURYI (European Young Investigator) Award from the European Science Foundation *2006: Membership in The Young Academy of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences *2007: Bernhard Katz prize *2008: Boehringer Ingelheim FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) Research Award

External links

Prof. Dr. med. Pascal Fries (Vita)
from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, München (German)
Personal 2009
(Supplement to the Annual Report of the Max Planck Society), p. 6: ''First Director at Ernst Strüngmann Institute.''

biotechnologie.de, 17. August 2006 *https://www.ru.nl/en/people/fries-p {{DEFAULTSORT:Fries, Pascal 1972 births German physiologists Living people Neurophysiologists