ALAIN PROCHIANTZ
Present position : Professor at Collège de France

Education/Training 
Ecole normale supérieure 1969-1972 Pre-Doc 1969-1971
Faculty of sciences Paris VII, France and MIT Cambridge, USA PhD 1971-1976
Collège de France Post-Doc 1976-1980

Academic carrier
Years 
1981-1984 Research Director at CNRS (Group leader INSERM U114, Collège de France)
1985-1986 Sabbatical, NYU School of Medicine, (Pr. Michael Shelanski)
1986-1989 Research Director at CNRS (Group leader INSERM U114, Collège de France)
1984-1987 Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
1990-2001 Research Director at CNRS, Head of CNRS Unit 8542: Development and Evolution of the Nervous System at Ecole Normale Supérieure
1996- 2004 Director of doctoral studies in Neuropharmacology
1987-1994 Member of the CNRS study section on cell interactions
1991-1994 Member of the Human Frontier Science Program Committee, Brain committee 
2001-2004 Chairman of the Parkinson's Disease committee Fondation de France
2001-2005 Member of Italian Telethon scientific committee
2002-2005 Chairman of Department of Biology at Ecole normale supérieure
2002-2005 Research Director at CNRS, Deputy-Head of CNRS Unit 8542: Development and Evolution of the Nervous System at Ecole Normale Supérieure
2006-2009 Head of CNRS Unit 8542: Development and Evolution of the Nervous System at Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège de France
2007- Professor at Collège de France
2010- Head of CNRS Unit 7233 at Collège de France and ENS
2010- Adjunct Professor. KAIST University, South Korea.

Honors and Awards
Years
2001 Athena award from the Academy of Sciences
2003 Member of the French Academy of Sciences

Editor
1990-1995 Associate Editor J. Neurochemistry
2007-2009 Associate Editor Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 
2005- Member of Faculty of 1000