GYÖRGY BUZSÀKI, MD. PhD



The Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, at New York University School of Medicine

Dr. Buzsáki is a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Academiae Europaeae and an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Buzsáki received honoris causa from Université Aix-Marseille, France, University of Kaposvár, Hungary and University of Pécs, Hungary. He was the winner of the inaugural Brain Prize in 2011 together with Tamás Freund and Péter Somogyi for their work describing organization of neurons in the hippocampus and the cortex. He is the 2020 recipient of the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, the highest honor from the Society for Neuroscience, USA. Also in 2011 he was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.