Freund, Tamas

Neurobiologist

Born in 1959, Tamas Freund obtained his degree in biology from Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) in 1983. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1984 and a candidate's degree in 1986. In 1992 he became a doctor of the Academy. He was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1998 and a full member from 2004. He began his career at the First Institute of Anatomy of the Semmelweiss University. With interruptions between 1982 and 1988 he was a scholarship student then research fellow and later senior research fellow at Oxford University. From 1990 he was senior worker at the Experimental Medical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was appointed deputy director in 2001 becoming head of the institute later that year. From 2001 he has been head of the Department of Neurobiology at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He has received a number of domestic and international awards; he was the first to obtain the Bolyai prize in 2000. He is on the board of editors of several international journals.

Breaking Waves - The Effect of Marijuana on Brain Waves and the Memory