RAZ YIRMIYA

CURRICULUM VITAE - RAZ YIRMIYA

BIRTH DATE: May 26, 1956
BIRTH PLACE: Rehovot, Israel
IDENTITY CARD: 054380514
MARITAL STATUS: Married to Prof. Nurit Yirmiya + 4 children
CITIZENSHIP: Israeli
ARMY SERVICE: Four years (1974-1978), released as a lieutenant
ADDRESS: 5 Mevo Dakar St., Jerusalem 91905
TEL: (work) 02-5883695 (home) 02-5814294
E-MAIL: razyirmiya@huji.ac.il

EDUCATION

1978 - 1981 B. A., Psychology
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

1981 - 1984 M. Sc., Medical Sciences
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

1984 - 1988 Ph.D., Neuroscience
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

1988 - 1990 Post-doctoral Fellow, Psychoneuroimmunology Program, Departments of Anatomy, Psychiatry and Psychology, UCLA

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERISTY

1990 - 1993 Lecturer, Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1993 - 1997 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1997- 2003 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

2003 - Full Professor, Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

OTHER SERVICES AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY

2003 - 2005 Chair, Scientific Committee, The Eric Roland Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, The Hebrew University
2001 - 2005 Chair, Faculty of Social Sciences Research and Infrastructure Committee
2001 - 2005 Member, Academic committee of the Davis Institute for International Relations
2000 - 2005 Member, University Committee for Animals Research Facilities
2000 - 2003 Member, Steering Committee, The Eric Roland Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, The Hebrew University
1999 - Co-director, Interdepartmental B.A. Program in Psychobiology
1999 - 2005 Member, Steering Committee, Department of Psychology
1999 - 2003 Member, Teaching affairs Committee, Department of Psychology
1999 - 2003 Director, Psychobiology Graduate Program, Department of Psychology
1997 - 2000 Member, Department of Psychology Graduate Admittance Committee
1993 - Member, Department of Psychology Research Proposal Evaluation Committee
1992 - 1998 Member, Hebrew University Committee for Scientific Infrastructure
1992 - 1998 Member, Faculty of Social Sciences Committee for Scientific Infrastructure and Research
1994 - 1998 Member, Department of Psychology Committee for Scientific Infrastructure
1992 - 1995 Member, Steering Committee, Department of Psychology
1995 - 1996 Chair, Neuropsychology Program, Department of Psychology
1995 - 1996 Member, Teaching Committee, Department of Psychology
1992 - 1994 Chair, Department of Psychology Committee for Scientific Infrastructure

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Brain, Behavior and Immunity (Elsevier)

EDITORIOAL BOARD

The Open Neuropsychopharmacology Journal (Bentham Press)

GUEST EDITOR

Brain, Behavior and Immunity. Special issue on ”Cytokines and Depression”, 2002.

BOOK EDITOR

Yirmiya, R. and Taylor, A. N. (Eds.), Alcohol, Immunity and Cancer. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 1993.

Dantzer, R., Wollman, E. E., and Yirmiya, R. (Eds.), Cytokines, Stress and Depression. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press: New York, 1999.

ROLE IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS

Member of the Council, PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society 1997 - 1999

Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee
PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society 1998 - 1999

Member of the Scientific Committee for the 1st International
Conference on “Cytokines, Stress and Depression” (Roscoff, France) 1998

Member of the Organizing Committee for the 30th year
Celebration for the National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel 2000

Member of the Organizing Committee for the 33rd World Congress
of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology 2000

Member of the Scientific Committee for the 2nd International
Conference on “Cytokines, Stress and Depression” (Dinard, France) 2001

Member of the Council, PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society 2001 - 2004

Member, Scientific Counseling Committee
The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel 2001 – present

President, Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS) 2010-2011

SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR FOR GRANTING AGENCIES

United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (1992 - 1998)
The Israel Academy of Sciences (1998 – 1999; 2003 – 2005)
The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel (2001 – present)
Israel Foundation Trustees (2001 – 2003)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society
International Society for Neuroimmunomodulation
Society for Neuroscience, USA
International Brain Research Organization
Israel Society for Neuroscience
Center for Research on Pain, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Neuroscience Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem -Hadassah school of Medicine

EDITORIAL REVIEWER

Archives of Internal medicine
Behavioral Brain Research
Biological Psychiatry
Brain Research
Brain, Behavior and Immunity
Hippocampus
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
Journal of Neuroscience
Journal of Psychiatric Research
Molecular Psychiatry
Neuroendocrinology
Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuroimmunomodulation
Pain
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior
Psychiatry Research
Physiology and Behavior
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Psychosomatic Medicine

GRANTS REVIEWER

Israel Academy of Sciences
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Israel Ministry of Health
The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel
Milton Rosenbaum Foundation for Psychiatric Research
Israel Foundations Trustees
The Alzheimer’s Disease Association

HONORS

B.A., with special distinction, University of Haifa, 1981
M. Sc., with distinction, Technion- Israel Inst. of Tech., 1984
Rothschild Fellowship, 1984-1985
Fulbright Scholarship, 1984-1989
Distinguished Lecturer, The Hebrew University 1993-1994
The Norman Cousins Award, PNIRS 2010

INVITED ADDRESSES

The Hebrew University Department of Psychology Colloquium Series, 1991

Faculty of Medicine, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1992

The Nervous Club, Life Sciences Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1994

The UCLA Psychoneuroimmunology Lecture Series, 1996

The Israel Lieblich Memorial Day, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1996

The Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University, 1997

The Hebrew University Department of Psychology Colloquium Series, 1997

The Cognitive/Neuropsychology Seminar, The Hebrew University, 1999

Brain Center, Faculty of Medicine, Beer Sheva University, 2000

Brainstorm Lecture Series, School of Medicine, The Hebrew University, 2000

Seminar Series, Adams Super Center for Brain Studies in Tel Aviv University, 2000

The UCLA Psychoneuroimmunology Lecture Series, 2000

Neuro-Immune-Endocrine Collaborative Research Center, Phillipps-University Marburg, Germany, 2001

The Hebrew University Department of Physiology Colloquium Series, 2002

Dutch Society of Psychiatry, Groningen, Holland, 2002

The University of Haifa International Conference on the Psychobiology of Emotions, 2002

The Zlotowski Center for Neurosciences Annual Retreat, Ben-Gurion University, 2003

Seminar Series, Adams Super Center for Brain Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2003

The Technion and the University of Haifa Neuroscience Forum, Seminar Series, 2003.

Plenary Invited Lecture, 4th Congress of the European Federation of the International Association for the Study of Pain Chapters, Prague, 2003.

The University of Bonn, School of Medicine Seminar Series, Germany 2004

Meeting of the Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology, Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry, Invited Lecture, Zurich, 2005

The University of Colorado Department of Integrative Physiology Colloquium Series, Boulder, CO USA, 2005

The University of Colorado Center for Neuroscience Colloquium Series, Boulder, CO USA, 2006

Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Association, Invited Lecture, Denver, CO, 2006

The University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry Colloquium Series, Denver, CO USA, 2006

McGill University Visiting Scholar Program, 2007

3rd Conference on Cytokines and Depression, Bordeaux, France, 2007

Irish Science Foundation, Dublin, 2008

The Department of Medical Neurobiology Colloquium Series, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010

The Tel Aviv University Medical School Colloquium Series, 2010

LIST OF COURSES

Biological Basis of Behavior

Brain and Behavior for Psychobiologists

NeuroPsychoPharmacology

Neurophysiology

Functional Neuroanatomy

Development, Plasticity and Memory

Seminar in Psychobiology

Laboratory Course in Psychoneuroimmunology

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

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