Curriculum vitae

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Office Address

Communication Sciences & Disorders
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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).

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, in cooperation with the Imaging Research Laboratories at the Robarts Research Institute (Dr. Ravi Menon) and the Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario (Dr. Vladimir Hachinski).

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
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.