Bernd Nilius short CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Bernd Nilius M.D., Ph.D.

Present Position and Address: Professor Emeritus, KU Leuven, Department Molecular Cell Biology, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.

tel. private: 0049-3841-252 1119; e-mail: bernd.nilius@kuleuven.be

Nationality: German

Biographical: born: July, 16 th, 1945, Halle (Saale), Germany

Education: 1964 -1970 Medicine, M.D; 1971-1975 Mathematics, Dipl. Math.; 1978 Ph.D. Physiology

Professional experience:

2010 ... Emeritus Professor KU Leuven

2005-2010 Chairman Center of Excellence KU Leuven, “TRP channels …”;

1993 - 2010 Full Professor of Physiology, KU Leuven, Belgium;

1992 - 1993 Leader Max Planck Research Group “Mol Cell Physiology” (Germany);

1990 - 1991 Full Professor Medical University Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany;

1980 - 1990 Assistant and Associate Professor of Physiology same Institute ;

1970 - 1980 Research Associate, Institute of Physiology (from 1981 Julius Bernstein Institute of Physiology), Halle (Germany)

He worked on many types of ion channels, discovered in 1985 the T-type Ca2+ channels in cardiac cells and focused later on ion channels in vascular endothelium, especially Cl- channels (first functional description of the volume regulated anion channel, VRAC). In Leuven, he initiated a very successful research on TRP (Transient Receptor Potential) cation channels reaching from their molecular characterization, their function in native cells and their impact on human diseases.

Membership in Editorial Boards of International Journals (selected): Editor-in-Chief: 2005-…Pflügers Archiv (Europ J Physiol), Reviews of Physiology Biochemistry and Pharmacology (RPBP), General Physiology Biophysics 1982-2005; Editorial Board: Physiol Rev., EMBO J (advisor), EMBO Reports (advisor), EMBO Mol Med, Journal Physiol (Lond), Cell Calcium,Cellular Physiology Biochemistry; Endothelium; Amer J Physiol, J Biol Chem (JBC), J Neurosci, ad hoc non-member Editor PNAS

Membership in Scientific Societies (selected):

Foreign Corresponding Member Belgian Royal Academy of Medical Sciences, Member of the Academia Europea, since 2006 Committee Member for Physiology/Medicine, Honorary Member of the Slovak Physiological Society, Elected Member of the Faculty of the 1000, Elected Member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation), Member of several National Physiol Societies (APS, BPS, SGP, etc), elected Member of the Faculty of the 1000 Research

Honours (selected):

1999 –2005 Member of the National Science Foundation (Belgium)

2000/2001 President of the Belgian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology

2007 Dautrebande Award of the Royal Academy Med, Belgium (presented by the Queen of Belgium, Award 100.000 EUR)

2009 Nomination Honorary Visting Professor 3rd Medical University, Chongqing, China

2011 Hans Bloemendal Award, Univ Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2012 Invitation for Brackenbury Chair, Manchester, refused

2012 Invitation as member of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF), refused.

2013 Nomination Advisory Board “Channelopathy Foundation”, Switzerland

2015 Member of the Inaugural Editorial Board “Khazar Journal of Science and Technology (KJSAT)”.

2017 Nomination Advisory Board HFSP

2017 Nomination Adjunct Professor Menzies Health Institute, UCC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

Invited lectures at international meetings: More than 200 invited and plenary lectures, e.g., Gordon Conferences; Keystone Conferences, IUPS meetings etc., Organizer of several international meetings, e.g. Keystone Meeting, TRP channel meetings, Gordon Conference, KAST (Korean Academy Science Technology), etc.

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bibliometric data (10-01-2024): 691 entries registered in ISI Web of Knowldege, total citations >45.450; h-index 113; Google Scholar h-index 132, >61.503 citations; i10 index: 428, rank 7th worldwide as for overall citation score in the Ion Channel Citation Ranking System. See also http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Nilius, Citation analysis in Google Scholar

International raking: research.com/scientists-rankings/biology-and-biochemistry

2014 among the most frequently cited scientists in 31 sciences categories worldwide, “highly cited scientist”: http://sciencewatch.com/sites/sw/files/sw-article/media/worlds-most-influential-scientific-minds-2014.pdf

For entries in worldwide scientist data base h > 100 see link below.

www.webometrics.info/en/hlargerthan100

The full world ranking is available here: https://research.com/scientists-rankings/biology-and-biochemistry.