Alicja L. Markowska

Neuroscientist

Born Aug. 22, 1948, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1986; daughter of Marian and Eugenia (Wodzynska); married Janusz Markowski; children: Marta, Michal.

Education: Master of Science (M.S.), University of Warsaw, 1971; Ph.D., Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Warsaw, 1979.

Career: adjunct, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, 1979-86; visiting fellow, Institute of Physiology, Prague (Czechoslovakia), 1981, University of Bergen (Norway), 1983; visiting faculty, 1986-87, research associate, 1987-91, research scientist, 1991-93, principal research prof., 1993 - , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD).

Author: Activation to Acquisition: Functional Aspects of the Basal Forebrain, 1990; co-author, The Basal Forebrain: Anatomy to Function, 1991, Encyclopedia of Memory, 1991, Memory: Organization and Locus of Change, 1992, Neuropsychology of Memory, 1992, and Methods in Behavioral Pharmacology, 1993; reviewer for: Neurobiology of Aging, and Behavioral Brain Research.

Member of: International Brain Research Organization; Society of Neuroscience; American Society for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); American Psychological Association (APA).

Honors: grants, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 1987-97, 1988-98, National Institute of Aging, 1991-95.

Affiliation: Catholic.

Languages: Polish, English, Russian, German.

Hobbies: painting, drawing.

Home: 1301 Kingsbury Road, Owings Mills, MD 21117.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996