Fernand Anton
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Professor of biological psychology University of Luxembourg
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Fernand Anton is a professor of biological psychology at the University of Luxembourg and holds a joint appointment as a professor of neurophysiology at the University of Trier (bilateral graduate school of psychobiology). He teaches systems neurophysiology, biological psychology and neurophysiological research methods. He earned his PhD degree in psychology at the University of Innsbruck in 1983 and then took additional training in neurophysiology at the Medical School of the University of Heidelberg where he was an assistant until 1985. Following two research years at he National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA, he joined the Medical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg where he installed a neurophysiology laboratory (central nervous system) and obtained his habilitation in 1994. In the same year he came back to Luxembourg where he was a scientific staff member of Centre de Recherche Public-Santé and a clinical psychologist at the pain clinic of the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg until joining the University of Luxembourg (formerly Centre Universitaire) in 2000 and the University of Trier in 2002. Dr. Anton’s research interests have mainly been focusing on psychobiological and neurophysiological mechanisms of pain processing.
last modified:03 May 2011
