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PERSONAL DETAILS
Name (Last, First): Totah, Nelson K.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0998-9770
Year of birth: 1982
Nationality: American
EDUCATION
2012 - PhD in Neuroscience (Diploma – April 2012), University of Pittsburgh, Advisor: Prof. Bita Moghaddam
2004 - Bachelors of Science in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University
CURRENT POSITION(S)
from 06.2019 - Assistant Professor of Neurophysiology and Pharmacology, Helsinki Institute of Life Science and Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland
from 1997 - Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Science National Honor Society, USA
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
09.2017 – 06.2020 - Research Group Leader, Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
06.2012 – 09.2017 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
2003 – 2006 - Director, Institute of Neuroscience, USA (an 8-week education program for students)
PUBLIC SERVICE
2001 – 2011 - Disaster and counter-terrorism medic, United States Department of Health and Human Services, USA (Provided medical care in austere environments during and after natural disasters and acts of terrorism.)
GRANTS
2020 – 2025 - Academy of Finland Research Fellow
2020 - Fulbright Finland Travel Grant for Research Collaboration to support ties between Finland and the US and support a collaborative research project between my laboratory in Helsinki and a collaborator’s laboratory at Rice University (Houston, Texas).
2020 – 2022 - Sigrid Jusélius Foundation Grant.
2013 – 2015 - Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship from European Comission.
AWARDS
2018 - EMBO Research Laboratory Leadership Course for Group Leaders
2017 - Travel Award, Neuromodulation of Neural Microcircuits conference
2016 - Top Poster Award, The Brain Conferences: New Insights into Psychiatric Disorders through Computational, Biological, and Developmental Approaches
2014 - Invited Participant, 64th Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2014 - FENS / IBRO Travel Award, FENS Forum 2014
2013 - Humboldt Research Fellowship (declined and accepted other funding)
2011 - Research Fellowship, German Research Foundation Cluster of Excellence - Cell Networks at University of Heidelberg (declined and accepted other funding)
2010 - Travel Award, Riken Brain Sciences Institute Summer Program
2010 - PhD Research Fellowship, Andrew Mellon Foundation
2007 - Travel Award, Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines
2005 - PhD Research Fellowship, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
2004 - Travel Award, States United for Biomedical Research Conference on Laboratory Animal Welfare
2004 - Howard Swearer Humanitarian Award National Finalist (1 of 12 people in USA)
2003 - Brainstem Program Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of St. Andrews
INVITED TALKS
2020 - Seminar, Neural probes techniques webinar series, Cambridge Neurotech
2019 - Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
2019 - Symposium Chair, “Redefining neuromodulation of behavior: impact of a modular locus coeruleus architecture”, Society for Neuroscience Meeting
2019 - Seminar, “Plasticity (from molecules to behavior)” Conference, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology and Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences
2019 - Seminar, KU Leuven
2019 - Seminar, University of Heidelberg, German Research Foundation Collaborative Research Centre on Functional Ensembles (SFB 1134)
2019 - Seminar, Center for Molecular Neurobiology
2019 - Seminar, Helsinki Institute of Life Science
2019 - Seminar, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences Strasbourg
2019 - Seminar, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience
2019 - Seminar, University of Florida Gainesville, Department of Psychology
2019 - Seminar, Animal Ethics Workshop, Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen
2018 - Seminar, Champaulimaud Center for the Unknown
2018 - Seminar, Department of Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen
2018 - Seminar, Wellcome Trust Neural Dynamics Program, University of Bristol
2017 - Flash Talk, Neuromodulation of Neural Microcircuits Conference
2017 - Seminar, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems, Italian Institute of Technology
OTHER KEY ACADEMIC MERITS: DOCTORAL COMMITTEES
2015 - Examiner, Vilnius University, Lithuania
2019 - Examiner, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy
OTHER KEY ACADEMIC MERITS: ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
2018 – 2019 - Chairperson of PI Committee on Institutional Infrastructure and Organization, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
2012 – 2018 - Elected Ombudsperson responsible for mediating employee conflict, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
OTHER KEY ACADEMIC MERITS: JOURNAL AND GRANT PANEL REVIEWING
from 2012 - Article peer-review, Cerebral Cortex
from 2013 - Article peer-review, Journal of Neurophysiology
from 2014 - Article peer-review, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
from 2018 - Article peer-review, Neural Plasticity
from 2018 - Article peer-review, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
from 2019 - Article peer-review, European Journal of Neuroscience
from 2020 - Article peer-review, Current Biology
from 2019 - Grant review, Agence nationale de la recherche (France)
from 2019 - Grant review, Human Frontier Science Program
from 2020 - Grant review, Israel Science Foundation
from 2020 - Article peer-review, Biological Psychiatry
from 2020 - Article peer-review, eNeuro
TEACHING
from 2020 - Masters Program in Neuroscience, NEU-101 Methods and Trends in Neuroscience
from 2020 - Doctoral Program in Drug Research, Stereotaxical Methods in Brain Research
from 2020 - Doctoral Program in Neuroscience (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Brain Circuits
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Nelson Totah & Marjo Saastamoinen
05/06/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Nelson Totah, Ari Pekka Mähönen & Marjo Saastamoinen
04/06/2019
1 item of Media coverage
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