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