KISS, Tamás

Name: Tamás Kiss, Ph.D.
Currently on sabbatical at Pfizer Inc's Global Research and Development, Eastern Point Road Groton, CT, 06340, USA
Phone: +1 (860) 715-2223
E-mail: tamas.kiss@pfizer.com

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Address: Dept. Biophysics, KFKI RIPNP of the HAS, Konkoly-Thege M. út 29-33, Budapest, H-1121, Hungary
Office: KFKI Campus, Building 13, Floor 1, Room 3.
E-mail: kiss.t@wigner.mta.hu
Phone: +36 1 392 2222 x3257
Fax: +36 1 392 2742

Detailed CV (.pdf, 382K)
Qualification: physicist
Position: Senior research fellow / Principal scientist
Erdős Number: 4 in a series of Erdős - Rényi - Szentágothai - Érdi - Kiss
Positions:

	2012-	Principal Scientist, Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT
	2012-	Senior research fellow, Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
	2008 - 2012	Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Pfizer Inc, Global Research and Development, Neuroscience Research Unit, Groton, CT
	2007 - 2008	Acting Head of the Department of Biophysics
	2007 -	Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics and its Applications, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
	1999 - 2000	Physics teacher at the Klébelsberg Kunó Primary and High School, Budapest, Hungary
	1999 - 2012	Research fellow, KFKI RIPNP of the HAS
	1998 - 1999	Research assistant, KFKI RIPNP of the HAS

Education:

	2000 - 2005	PhD course at Eötvös Loránd University on Statistical-, Quantum- and Biophysics (PhD in physics)
	1998 - 2001	Physics teacher's training at Eötvös University (BEd in physics)
	1995 - 2000	Studies physics at Eötvös Loránd University, specializing in Biophysics and in the Physics of Atoms and Molecules (MSc in physics)
	1991 - 1995	Móricz Zsigmond High School, specializing in physics

Awards:

	2009	Travel award for outstanding poster presentation for the Julius Axelrod satellite meeting of SfN 2009, Chicago
	2008	Akadémiai Ifjúsági Díj (Young Researchers' Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
	2007	Györgyi Géza Díj / Prize
	2001	Central Peak Award from the Geilo NATO ASI for Hands on Modeling
	1998	3rd prize from Eötvös University at University Scientific Competition, Neurobiology, Simultaneous Theta and Gamma Activity in a Hippocampal Interneuron Network (in Hungarian)

Memberships:

	Society for Neuroscience
	Hungarian Neuroscience Society
	Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
	New York Academy of Sciences

Research interest:

I am studying some functional aspects of the hippocampal formation. Specifically, as a part of the ICEA project I am focusing on explaining how the hippocampus being involved in spatial tasks could at the same time fulfil episodic memory functions. Apparently, from a (neuro-)computational point of view this two processes require different underlying mechanisms. By building computer models of the hippocampus and implementing them in a mobile robotic agent I try to show that the two functions can indeed work together.

You might be interested in my doctoral thesis (.pdf, 22 KB). Innen letölthető diplomamunkám (.pdf, 1.23 MB), illetve doktori disszertációm (.pdf, 2.14 MB), valamint disszertációm tézisei (.pdf, 24 KB).

Date of birth: May 12, 1977
Place of birth: Budapest, Hungary
Nationality: Hungarian
Marital status: Married (see this page), father of one daughter
Languages: English and French besides Hungarian
Personal homepage: http://www.kfki.hu/~bognor
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