Rate My Professor Norbert Fortin

Norbert J. Fortin is Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior within the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from McGill University in 1998, receiving First Class Honours, Dean's Honour List recognition, and the McConnell Award. He obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Boston University in 2003. Fortin held a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral fellowship from the NIH from 2006 to 2008. He was a finalist for the Donald B. Lindsley Prize for Most Outstanding Thesis in Behavioral Neuroscience, awarded by the Grass Foundation and the Society for Neuroscience in 2004. Additional honors include graduate fellowships from the Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche (FCAR) in Québec (2002-2003), the Presidential University Graduate Fellowship from Boston University (1998-2002), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; 1998-2002). At UCI, he serves as Director of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (Graduate) and as a Fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.