Robert T. Gerlai is a Hungarian

Hungary

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 behavior geneticist

Behavioural genetics

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. He obtained his PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in 1987 from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He is full professor of psychology

Psychology

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 and vice chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto

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. The Web of Science

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 lists 96 peer-reviewed

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 publications for him, which have been cited over 3000 times, giving him an h-index

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 of 30. Gerlai has worked with several different animal species, including paradise fish

Paradise fish

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 and mice. He currently mainly uses zebrafish in his research.

Honors

Gerlai has been president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

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 and is a member of the editorial board

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s of Genes, Brain and Behavior

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and Neurotoxicology and Teratology. He is associate editor

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 of Frontiers in The Genetics of Complex Traits

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and section editor for behavioral neuroscience of BMC Neuroscience.