2023     Elected Member of EMBO

2023     Board of Directors, European Brain Council

2022 – 2023   Board Member, International Brain Research Organisation – Pan European Committee

2021     Founding Director, Sussex Centre for Sensory Neurosci. and Computation (SNAC, www.SCSNAC.org).

2020 – 2024  Board of Reviewers, Human Frontiers Science Programme, Grants Division

2019     Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)

2018     Professor of Neuroscience, University of Sussex

2018 – 2024     Fellow, EMBO Young Investigator Programme (YIP)

2016     Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience, University of Sussex, UK. 

2017 – 2021     Elected Fellow, Federation of European Neurosciences (FENS) KAVLI Network of Excellence

2015     Founder, Open Labware, >200k downloads of own designs (www.Open-Labware.net).

2012     Co-founding Director TReND in Africa: (www.TReNDinAfrica.org).

2010 – 2016     Research Fellow, University of Tübingen, CIN/BCCN. Germany. Lab of T Euler.

2008 – 2010     Career Development Fellow, MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK. Lab of L Lagnado.

Major Awards

2022 -- Boehringer Ingelheim / FENS Research Award (25,000 €, 50% shared)

2019 -- Tencent & Nature. Global Impact Award ($30,000)

2018 – Lister Prize for Preventive Medicine.
2017 – Sir Philipp Leverhulme Prize.
2017 – Eppendorf Prize.
2013 – Attempto Prize.
2011 – J Visual Neurosci Young Investigator Prize.

Programme Grants

2024 - ERC Advanced "Cones4Action"

2020 - Wellcome Investigator Award

2016 - ERC Starter "NeuroVisEco"

Full CV available on lab page www.badenlab.org