Email: emre.yaksi@ntnu.no
- EDUCATION
2007 PhD, Max Planck Inst. for Medical Research, Uni. of Heidelberg, Germany
2003 MSc, dMax Planck Inst. for Medical Research, Uni. of Heidelberg, Germany
2001 BSc, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, METU, Turkey
- CURRENT POSITIONS
Since 2017 Professor, Kavli Inst. for Systems neuroscience, NTNU, Norway
Since 2017 Assoc. Investigator, Ctr. for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Norway
- PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2015 – 2017 Associate Professor, Kavli Inst. for Systems neuroscience, NTNU, Norway
2011 – 2016 Assistant Professor, KULeuven, Belgium
2010 – 2016 Group Leader, Neuroelectronics Research Flanders, VIB, Belgium
2013 – 2014 Interim Dept. Director, Neuroelectronics Research Flanders, VIB, Belgium
2007 – 2010 Post-doc, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, USA
- FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016 Mid-Norway regional health authorities research grant, Norway
2015 Norwegian research council FRIPRO BIOMED young talent grant, Norway
2015 Assoc. for Chemoreception Sciences Young investigator award 2015, USA
2014 Selected for FENS/Kavli Network of Excellence, EU
2014 Federation of European Neuroscience Young Investigator Prize 2014, EU
2013 European Research Commission (ERC) starting investigator grant, EU
2008-2010: Human Frontiers Science Program, Long-term Postdoc Fellowship, USA
2006 MBL, Neural Systems & Behavior Summer Course, USA
2003-2006 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellowship, Germany
2001-2002 Msc Scholarship of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Germany
1996-2001 Scholarship of Turkish Science & Technology Association, Turkey
- SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
I have directly supervised and mentored 8 post-doctoral fellows, 9 PhD students, 13 MSc students. The first round of alumni from my lab have already taken attractive positions in academia and in industry (please see below a full list).
Post-docs
- Since Nov 2018: Dr Kadir Mutlu
- Since September 2017: Dr Daniela Weth
- Since September 2015: Dr Pradeep Lal (Marie Curie Fellowship)
- Graduated Dec 2018: Dr Laetitia Lalla, now data scientist
- Graduated April 2018: Dr Florence Kermen (Fyssens Fellow), now PI, NTNU Biology Dept, Norway
- Graduated March 2017: Dr Filip Janiak, now postdoc at University of Sussex, UK
- Graduated June 2015: Dr Cameron Wyatt (AXA Postdoctoral Fellowship), now imaging/zebrafish facility manager at University of Edinburgh, UK
- Graduated June 2013: Dr Elena Dreosti (Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowships), now PI at UCL, UK
PhD Students
- Since April 2018: Christa Ringers (Boehringer Ingelheim Fond Fellowship)
- Since June 2017: Fabrizio Palumbo
- Since January 2017: Sverre Myren-Svelstad
- Since February 2015: Robrecht Pelgrims
- Since January 2015: Ewelina Bartoszek
- Since September 2013: Stephanie Fore
- will graduate Sept 2018: Carmen Verdugo Diaz, now postdoc at Novartis, USA
- Graduated October 2016: Luis Mendez Franco (VIB Fellowship), now postdoc at UCSB, USA
- Graduated November 2015: Suresh Kumar Jetti (Boehr. Ing. Fond Fellow), now postdoc at MIT, USA
- Graduated March 2015: Nuria Vendrell Llopis, now postdoc at UC Berkley, USA
- SELECTED TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2017 – 2018 Director of the NTNU Master program in Neuroscience
2016 – 2017 Coordinator, Systems Neuro. course at NTNU Msc program in Neuroscience
2016 Summer school of Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience, organizer
2013 Teaching at Marie Curie initial training network FLIACT, Germany
2012 – 2013 Organizing and teaching at VIB/NERF/KULeuven PhD School, Belgium
- ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (if applicable)
2017 FENS/Kavli Network of Excellence Symposium, co-organizer
2016 Kavli Prize Neuroscience Symposium, co-organizer
2012 – 2014 NERF, Neuro-technology Symposium, organizer
- INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (if applicable)
2017 – 2018 FENS/Kavli Network of Excellence Board member
2013 Interim Department Director for 1 year, NERF, Belgium
- REVIEWING ACTIVITIES (if applicable)
Reviewer for Scientific journals: Behavioural Brain Research, BMC Biology, BMC Neuroscience, Current Biology, Development, eLife, EMBO Reports, Frontiers in Neural Circuits, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Neuroscience PLOS Comp. Biology
Reviewer for funding agencies: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), ERC, Marie Curie Fellowship, HFSP, La Fédération pour la Recherche sur le Cerveau (FRC), Icelandic Research Council,
- MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2015 FENS/Kavli Network of Excellence
Since 2015 Federation of European Neuroscience
Since 2015 Norwegian Neuroscience Society
Since 2016 Society for Neuroscience
