Email Address:
joaquinf@ucla.edu
Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-9989
310-825-0247
Mailing Address:
760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Work Address:
760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Affiliations |
Senate Emeritus Distinguished Professor , Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
Emeritus Member, Brain Research Institute |
Member, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Neuroengineering Training Program |
Dr. Joaquin M. Fuster (b.1930 Barcelona, Spain) studied medicine at the University of Barcelona (M.D. 1953). In 1957 he emigrated to the United States to initiate a career in neuroscience at the UCLA. During 1962-64, he worked as a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. After receiving his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Granada, Spain, Dr. Fuster has been Professor of Psychiatry and a member of the Brain Research Institute and the Semel Institute at the UCLA's School of Medicine.
Dr. Fuster's major recent honors and awards include: Member of Honor of the Spanish Royal Academy of Medicine; Signoret Prize (University Sorbonne, Paris); Fyssen International Science Prize; Doctor Honoris Causa, University Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain; Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience (NARSAD); and the George Miller Prize of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. His group has made significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience:
Fuster is the author of over one-hundred peer-reviewed articles and three books: The Prefrontal Cortex, Memory in the Cerebral Cortex, and Cortex and Mind.