Nektarios Tavernarakis#
| Membership Number: | 3709 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.elegans.gr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013-present Director General of IMBB-FORTH, Greece
- 2010-present Professor, University of Crete Medical School
- 2008-present Research Director (Professor), IMBB-FORTH, Greece
- 2004-2008 Chief Researcher (Associate Professor), IMBB-FORTH, Greece
- 2001-2004 Executive Researcher (Assistant Professor), IMBB-FORTH, Greece
- 1999-2001 Research Associate, Rutgers University, USA
- 1995-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- BioImaging & non linear microscopy
- Cell death
- Sensory transduction & integration
- Necrosis
- Protein metabolism & homeostasis
- Ageing
- Neurodegeneration
- Cellular metabolism
- Stress response mechanisms
- Autophagy
Honours and Awards
- 2012: Academic Excellence Prize, Empeirikeion Foundation, Greece
- 2012: Science Excellence award, General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Greece
- 2010: Elected Excellence Professor, Medical School, University of Crete
- 2009: Elected EMBO Member (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- 2009: ERC Advanced Investigator Grant award (European Research Council)
- 2008: Appointed External Senior Research Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg University, Germany
- 2007: Research Excellence award, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece
- 2007: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel research award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2006: Appointed Member, Faculty of 1000 (Biology/Medicine; section on Cellular Death & Stress Responses)
- 2005: Academic Prize in Medicine and Biology, Bodossaki Foundation, Greece
- 2002: EMBO Young Investigator award (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- 1996-2000: Long term postdoctoral fellowship, International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO)
- 1996: Long term postdoctoral fellowship, State of New Jersey, Commission on Cancer Research fellow, USA
- 1996: Academic achievement award, Post-Graduate Research Grand Program, Hellenic University Club of New York, USA
- 1995: Ph.D. Excellence award, University of Crete, Greece
- 1989: Dean's List and First Rank University Graduation Honours award, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1987-1989: Dean's List and Outstanding Annual Performance award, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1985: Excellence Prize, National Mathematics contest, Greek Mathematical Society
