George Paxinos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

George Paxinos

Greek Australian neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1944

Place of Birth: Ithaca, Ionian Islands Region, Greece

Profession: neuroscientist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

George Paxinos AO FASSA FAA (Greek: G?????? ?a?????, born 6 December 1944) is a Greek Australian neuroscientist, born in Ithaca, Greece.
He completed his BA in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
After a postdoctoral year at Yale University, he moved to the School of Psychology of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
He is currently an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and Scientia Professor of Psychology and Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society of New South Wales, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens.