Attila Losonczy

Attila Losonczy
Born	1974 (age 43–44) Nagykanizsa, Hungary
Residence	New York City, USA
Nationality	Hungarian
Alma mater	University of Pécs Semmelweis University
Awards	Searle Scholar NARSAD Young Investigator Award NIH BRAIN Initiative Award
Scientific career
Fields	Systems neuroscience
Institutions	Columbia University Medical Center
Doctoral advisor	Zoltan Nusser

Attila Losonczy (born 1974) is a Hungarian neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University Medical Center. Losonczy's main area of research is on the relationship between neural networks and behavior, specifically with regard to learning in the hippocampus.

His group conducts research on spatial navigation and episodic learning in animal models as well as the pathology of cognitive memory deficits in neurodegenerative disorders and psychiatric disorders such as PTSD and anxiety. Losonczy is currently working on developing in vivo imaging methods using two-photon microscopy and calcium imaging to simultaneously image hundreds of hippocampal place cells in conscious mice performing spatial tasks.

Attila Losonczy was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, in 1974. He received the MD degree from the University of Pécs Medical School in 1999, and subsequently the PhD degree at Semmelweis University in Neurobiology in 2004 with a thesis entitled "Underlying mechanisms of short-term synaptic plasticity at identified central synapses," advised by Zoltan Nusser. In 2003, he moved from Hungary to the United States; from 2003 to 2006, Losonczy was a postdoctoral fellow at Louisiana State University with Jeffrey Magee. In 2006, he served as a postdoctoral fellow with Gero Miesenböck at Yale University.

From 2007 to 2009, Losonczy worked as a research specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, again working with Magee.

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