Balázs Gulyás


Balázs Gulyás is a Hungarian neurobiologist.

Personalia

Gulyás is a Hungarian born neurobiologist now working and residing in Singapore. Since 1988, Gulyás has been living in Stockholm, working at the Karolinska Institute. Since 2013, while keeping his professorship at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, he has been one of the founding professors of the Imperial College London-Nanyang Technological University Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore where he is responsible for Translational Neuroscience and is the Scientific Director of Neuroscience and Mental Health . At NTU he is the founding director of the university's Centre for Neuroimaging Research at NTU. He has also a visiting professorship at the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London. Gulyás received his university degrees from Semmelweis University from which he graduated as Doctor of Medicine and from the Catholic University of Leuven where he obtained a BA and an MA in Philosophy and a PhD in neurobiology. He has also pursued studies in physics at Budapest's Eotvos Lorand University and in canon law and law at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Work

Gulyás' main research interest is in basic neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, functional neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience. In recent years, he has also been involved in neuropharmacological drug and biomarker research and development.
Gulyás has published ten books, over 35 book-chapters and over 200 research papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.
A professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Gulyás was a guest professor, among others, of the Collège de France, and is a faculty member of the Parmenides Foundation . He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea and the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine. He is the founder of the World Science Forum series.

Publications

His books include: