Ivan Divac

Background

Divac, Ivan was born on March 27, 1932 in Aleksinac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Son of Milorad and Bojka (Boskovic) Divac.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Medical Faculty, Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1958; Doctor of Science, Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland, 1967; Doctor of Medicine, Medical School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1978.

Career

Assistant professor, Medical Faculty, Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1961-1965; postgrad student, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1963-1964; postgrad student, Nencki Institute, Warsaw, 1965-1967; research associate, Penn State University, 1968-1970; research associate, Institute Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, 1970-1978; associate professor, Institute Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, since 1978. Visiting professor Harvard University, 1973-1974, U. Melbourne, Australia, 1981. Visiting scholar University of California at Los Angeles, 1990-1991.

Committee member European Training Program for Brain and Behavior Research.

Achievements

• Ivan Divac has been listed as a notable Neuroscientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Mammalian Neostriatum: Its Functional Heterogenity Associated with Topical Input from the Neocortex

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association. Member Society for Neurosci., European Neurosci. Association, European Brain and Behavior Society (committee member).

Interests

• Avocation: chess.

Connections

Married Ljiliana Kojic (divorced 1968). L child, Srdjan; married R. Gunilla E. Oberg. L child, Marko Divac Oberg.

Father:

Milorad Divac

Mother:

Bojka (Boskovic) Divac

Spouse:

R. Gunilla E. Oberg

Spouse:

Ljiliana Kojic