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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Biol. Ivan Manzini

  • Education

    2000 - 2003 Continuation and completion of the doctoral thesis within the MSc/PhD/MD-PhD Neuroscience Program of the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    1999 - 2000 Doctoral thesis at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    1993 - 1999 Studies of Biological Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
    1993 Diploma at the German High School H. Kunter in Bolzano, Italy

  • Academic and Professional Career

    since 2016 Professor (W3), Institute of Animal Physiology, Department of Animal Physiology and Molecular Biomedicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
    2012 - 2016 Research group leader at the DFG Research Center 103 - Cluster of Excellence 171 - Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    2010 - 2012 Research group leader at the DFG Center Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    2006 - 2010 Principal investigator at the Institute of Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    2003 - 2006 Research Assistant (Postdoctoral research fellow) at the Institute of Neurophysiology and Cellular Biophysics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    since 2021 Member of the “Faculty board - Faculty 08 (Biology and Chemistry)” at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Gießen, Germany
    since 2017 Member of the „Giessen Graduate Centre for the Life Sciences (GGL)” at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
    since 2016 Assistant chairman of the "examination board Bachelor Biology" and member of the "examination board Master Biology" at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
    since 2015 Member of the MSc/PhD/MD-PhD Neuroscience Program of the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    since 2014 Associate Member of the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) of the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  • Commissions of trust

    since 2022 Associate Editor of the scientific journal „Frontiers in Physiology - Aquatic Physiology“
    2021 - 2022 Member of the Organizing Committee of the XXXII Annual Meeting of the “European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO)”
    2019 - 2021 Guest Editor for the Journal “Cell and Tissue Research”
    since 2018 Elected member of the board of the „European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO)“
    since 2018 Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal „Frontiers in Physiology - Aquatic Physiology“

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    Awards
    2009 Polak “Young Investigator Award” of the “Association for Chemoreception Sciences - AChemS”
    Third Party Funding
    2017 - 2022 DFG Research Grant, Project: “Understanding morphological, molecular, and functional adaptations of the amphibian olfactory system demanded by transition from aquatic to terrestrial habitats“
    2015-2020 DFG Research Grant, Project: “Understanding metamorphosis of the amphibian olfactory system at the morphological, molecular, and functional Level“
    2013-2018 Financial support by the DFG Research Center 103 - Cluster of Excellence 171 - Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB), University of Göttingen
    2014-2017 German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Project: “Olfactory neurogenesis during tissue maintenance and repair“
    2010-2012 Financial support by the DFG Research Center Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB), University of Göttingen
    2009-2016 DFG Priority Programme 1392 “Integrative Analysis of Olfaction”, Project: “The evolutionary shift from aqueous to airborne olfaction: the role of ciliated, microvillous and crypt olfactory receptor neurons in an amphibian, transitional species”

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