Background
Pascal Fries was born in Saint Ingbert.
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Education
He studied medicine from 1991 to 1993 at the University of Saarland and from 1993 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he completed his medical studies in 1998 with the state examination. Foreign his doctoral thesis, he worked from 1993 to 1998 in the department of Professor Wolf Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 2000 from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
Career
From 1999 to 2001 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Doctor Robert Desimone in the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda in the United States of America. From 2001 to 2009 he was Principal Investigator at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging of the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where he also holds a professorship since 2008. Honors and 1991–1998: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.
Achievements
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1991–1998: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation 1999–2001: Postdoctoral membership at the German National Academic Foundation (Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik) 2000: Graduate (Summa cum laude) at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, medical specialty 2001: Award for the best dissertation of 2000, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, medical specialty 2003: „VIDI“ Award for career development from the"Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (New World Order) 2006: EURYI (European Young Investigator) Award from the European Science Foundation 2006: Membership in The Young Academy of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 2007: Bernhard Katz prize 2008: Boehringer Ingelheim FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) Research Award.
Membership
In the same year he became a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and began in 2009 the work as founding director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in collaboration with the Max Planck Society in Frankfurt.
