Curriculum vitae

PDF copy of my CV

e-mail: peter.soros(at)gmail.com

Education

Hannover Medical School - Hannover, Germany
1988-1995: M.D.

Hannover Medical School - Hannover, Germany
1992-1995: Doctoral thesis (Dr. med.), supervisor Dr. M. J. Müller on lipid metabolism in patients with liver cirrhosis (Hepatology 1998,8:1199-1205).

For an overview over medical education in Germany: pdf

Professional License

German Board of Physicians:
2002, Certified Neurologist

German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology:
2001, Certified Clinical Neurophysiologist

Professional Training

University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario, Canada
2007 - June 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Ruth Martin, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, investigating speech- and swallowing-related brain activity in younger and older adults and in patients with stroke using fMRI.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre - Toronto, Canada
2004 - 2006: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Simon Graham, Department of Imaging Research and Centre for Stroke Recovery, working on the neural basis of speech production and on vibrotactile processing. (BMC Neurosci. 2007;8:48).

The Rotman Research Institute - Toronto, Canada
2003-2004: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Don Stuss, investigating the neural basis of speech production using fMRI (Neuroimage 2006;32(1):376-387).

The Rotman Research Institute - Toronto, Canada
2002-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. C. Pantev, working on cortical auditory processing and the cortical control of swallowing, using MEG (Neuroimage. 2003;20:135-144).

Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Münster - Münster, Germany
2002 : Resident, working at an acute care unit and the outpatient clinic. Investigating auditory processing in healthy individuals and in patients with depression using MEG and MR spectroscopy (BMC Biology 2006;4:25).

Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology - Helsinki, Finland
1999: Research Fellow with Dr. Riitta Hari and Dr. Riitta Salmelin, investigating the cortical processing of nouns and verbs in healthy individuals and in stroke patients (Neuroimage 2003;19:1787-1801), using MEG.

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Münster - Münster, Germany
1996-2000 : Resident, working at acute care units, the stroke unit, the intensive care unit, the clinical electrophysiology / EEG lab and in the headache outpatient clinic (Neurology 2003;60:1542-1543). Collaboration with the Institute for Experimental Audiology (Dr. B. Lütkenhöner), investigating somatosensory and auditory processing with MEG (Neurology 2006;67:1059-1061).

Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen - Erlangen, Germany
1995 : Research Fellow with Dr. J. Vieth, using magnetoencephalography to study evoked magnetic fields (in comparison with fMRI) and spontaneous brain activity

Scholarships and Grants

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2002-present: Research Fellowship

Baycrest Centre - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2003: Jack and Rita Catherall Award

German Research Foundation (DFG) - Bonn, Germany
2002: Infrastructure Grant for installing a whole-head MEG system in Münster; contribution of 2 sub-projects

European Union - Strassbourg, France
1999: Research Grant for a study on cortical dynamics in action and object naming at the Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland

Medical Faculty, University of Münster - Münster, Germany
1997: Research Grant for a study on pain-induced reorganization of the primary somatosensory cortex at the Department of Neurology and the Biomagnetism Centre, University of Munster

Heart and Stroke Centre Münster - Münster, Germany
1997: Travel Award for visiting the MGH NMR Center in Boston

German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) - Bonn, Germany
1988-1994 : University Scholarship

Teaching

2008: Instructor, CSD 497b, Speech Science, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

2008: Instructor, Dentistry 115 - Oral Physiology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Reviewer

Granting Agencies

Sixth Framework Programme and Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union

Journals

Neuroimage
Neurology | pdf
Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Brain and Language
Cognitive Brain Research
European Journal of Neurology
Neuroscience Letters
BMC Neurology
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Conferences

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Human Brain Mapping Conferences 2006 in Florence, 2007 in Chicago and 2008 in Melbourne.