PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Antal Berényi
Citizenship: Hungarian
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.hu/citations?hl=hu&user=uTiiLcsAAAAJ
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-8530

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• 2006-2009 Medical economist (summa cum laude – excellent)
  R&D strategist of Hungarian small and medium size enterprises
  Faculty of Economics, University of Szeged
  
• 2006-2009 Ph.D. (summa cum laude – excellent)
  Spatial and temporal analysis of information processing in the ascending tectofugal visual system
  Neurosciences; Theoretical medical sciences
  Department od Physiology, University of Szeged
  
• 2000-2006 M.D. (summa cum laude – excellent)
  Processing of visual information along the pathway between the suprageniculate nucleus and the anterior ectosylvian cortex)
  Faculty of medicine, University of Szeged
  

CURRENT POSITION(S)

• 2020- Program Director
  Neurocybernetic Excellent Centre, University of Szeged, Hungary – www.u-szeged.hu
• 2018- Founder, Chairman & CEO
  Nounos Inc, USA & Neunos Zrt, Hungary – www.neunos.com
  
• 2013- Principal investigator, Senior Lecturer
  MTA- SZTE ’Momentum’ Oscillatory Neural Networks Research Group, Department of Physiology, University of Szeged, Hungary – www.berenyilab.com
• 2013- Adjunct Assistant Professor
  Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU Langone Medical Centre, New York City, NY, USA – https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/antal-berenyi
• 2011 – Founder, Owner
  Amplipex LIc – www.amplipex.com

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• 2010-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow
  Buzsáki Lab, Nourocsience Institute, NYU, New York, USA
• 2002-2010 Early-stage researcher; assistant lecturer after 2009
  Vision research group, Department of Physiology, University of Szeged, Hungary

VISITING SCOLARSHIPS

• Sci Tech Program, Technion, Haifa, Israel (July-August 1999)
• Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (1st-31st October 2006)
• Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland (2007, 2008)
• Niigata University, Niigata, Japan (7th-22nd December 2008)

SCOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

• Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology Frontline Grant (2020-2025; 1m USD)
• HCEMM Research Grant (Hungaryian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine) (2020-2025; 660k USD)
• Momentum II. Grant og the Hungarian Acad. of Sci. (2018-2023; 870k USD)
• Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00008 (2017-2019; 170 USD)
• EU FP7 ARC Starting Grant (2013-2018; 1.85m USD)
• Momentum I. Grant of the Hungarian Acad. of Sci. (2013-2018) 1.15m USD)
• EU FP7 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (2020-2012; 310k USD)
• Rosztóczy Fellowship (2010; 30k, USD)
• Scholarship of the Hungary Republic (2003-2004, 2004-2005)

Patents

• U.S. Patent No. 16/613400. (“Intersectional short-pulse stimulation of the Brain”; Inventors: Antal Berényi and György Buzsáki)

Awards

• ‘Talentum’ Prize (Foundation for the Future of Biomed. Sci., 2017)
• ‘Denis Gabor’ Prize for Innovation (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2016)
• ‘Junior Prima’ Prize for the most successful young neuroscientist of the nation (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2013)

Professional membership

• Young Academy of Europe
• Society for Neuroscience
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

Teaching and training activities

• Teaching Medical Physiology for undergraduate students
• (2-3 lectures / semester and weekly seminars, in Hungarian and English)
• Currently supervising four graduate students
• (‘Neuroscience’ PhD program – 8 in total during my career)
• Supervising one graduate student of the Szeged Scientist Academy
• Supervising two graduate students preparing their thesis

Science related organizing activity

• Organizer of the “The Future of Neuroengineering” Workshop of the Material Research Society (MRS) 2018 Spring Meeting, 2018 Apr 2-6, Phoenix, AZ, USA
• Organizer of the Joint International Conference: Hungarian Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting & IBRO Regional Meeting, 2020 Jan 29-30, Szeged, Hungary

Peer-reviewer status

(minimum one manuscript per year)

• Science (2014-)
• Nature Neuroscience (2018-)
• Current Biology (2013-);
• PLOS Biology (2018-)
• Brain, Structure and Function (2013-)
• Journal of Neuroscience (2013-)
• Journal of Neural Engineering (2013-)
• Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2013-)
• Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2014-)
• Sensors (2017-)
• Neuromodulation (2018-)
• PeerJ (2018-)
• PLOS One (2018-)
• JoVE (2018-)
• IBRO Reports (2019-)

    Total number of published/accepted original peer-reviewed articles and reviews: 42

    First authorship: 4

    Last authorship: 14

    Total number of citations: 4392

    H-index: 20

    BioRxiv papers: 1