Péter Somogyi (61) is Director of the Medical Research Council Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, and ad hominem Professor of Neurobiology at the University Department of Pharmacology, Oxford.He was born in Hungary. He graduated in biology and received his Ph.D. in cell biology at the Eötvös Lorànd University, Budapest, Hungary. His research training included neurocytology with Istvan Benedeczky and neuroanatomy with Janos Szentagothai at the Semmelweis Medical School, Budapest, biochemistry with A. David Smith and Ian Chubb at the University of Oxford, and immunocytochemistry with Claudio Cuello at Oxford and a postdoctoral fellowship with Ian Chubb at Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia.He received Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize in 2011.