Excellence-Class Professor Martin GIURFA | |
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| Born | September 1962 (age 62) |
| Nationality | Argentinean-French |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Free University of Berlin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroethology, Neurosciences, Animal Behavior Cognition, Learning & Memory, Invertebrates |
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| Doctoral advisor | Josué Núñez |
| Other academic advisors | Randolf Menzel, Héctor Maldonado |
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Martin Giurfa is an Argentinean-French neurobiologist and neuroethologist (born September 1962), member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, and the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is acknowledged for his work on the neural mechanisms of cognition in invertebrates, which he mostly explores using honeybees as models for understanding basic principles of learning and memory.