Martin Giurfa

Martin Giurfa is a Exceptional-Class Professor of Neurosciences. He obtained a PhD degree in neurosciences from the University of Buenos Aires in 1990. After spending 11 years in Berlin, Germany, where he became associate professor of the Free University of Berlin, he moved to Toulouse, France, in 2001 as a full professor of neurosciences to create the Research Center on Animal Cognition, a research institute of the CNRS (French Research Council). He directed the institute since its creation until 2017. He is currently a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (French Professorial Academy of Sciences) and member of the German Academy of Sciences and the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences. He has received the CNRS Silver Medal and several international awards for his research.  His research focuses on perceptual phenomena, learning and memory in honey bees from behavior to molecules. He holds an ERC Advanced Grant for his work on the neural basis of insect cognition.