Dr. Jorge Colombo is a neuroscientist and former CONICET Principal Investigator. He is the founder, former Director, and Director Emeritus of the Unit of Applied Neurobiology (CEMIC-CONICET) in Argentina. He did his postdoctoral studies at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA, USA and is a former full professor of the College of Medicine, University of South Florida, USA. Dr. Colombo was a fellow of the Ford Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the A. von Humboldt Foundation, the British Royal Society, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and the IBERDROLA Foundation. He is a former visiting professor at the Cecile and Oscar Vogt Brain Research Institute at the University of Dusseldorf, the Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research at Universitat Leipizg, the Autónoma Universidad de Madrid, the Universidad Complutense, the Lund University, the Department of Anatomy and Brain Research Institute at the University of Budapest, and at the University Pecs. He has several published articles in peer-reviewed international journals and books in the field of neuroendocrinology, brain evolution, cerebral cortex organization, and evolutionary social issues.
