Tamás Freund (born June 14, 1959 in

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) is a Hungarian neurobiologist. He is president of the

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and won the 2011

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for research into on the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the

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. He also won the

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. Freund attended

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, where he received a diploma in biology in 1983 and a

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in neuroscience in 1992. He later received his

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from the

. Freund was also president of the

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from 2004 to 2006. As of 2011, he was director of the

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of the

, as well as the Head of the Department of Neurosciences at

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. In 2014, he became the president of the National Brain Research Program. He was re-elected as the president of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2023.

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