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| AdminHistory | Date of Birth: 16 March 1942
Place of Birth: Cross-in-Hand, Sussex, UK
University & Professional Qualifications:
BA second class honours, Natural Science Tripos, (Mathematics, Advanced Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Crystallography) converted to MA, Christ's College, Cambridge. 1960-1963
Diploma in Abnormal Psychology, London University, 1965
Ph.D. in Psychology (H J Eysenck), 1969. Individual differences in motor skill performance, 1969
Professional Career:
Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology , The Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 2007-
Niels Bohr Visiting Professor , University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2002-2011
Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 2011-2013
Honours and Awards:
British Psychological Society Book Award, 'The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia, 1996
Kenneth Craik Award (St John's College, Cambridge), 1999
Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1999
Elected a Member of the Academia Europaea, 1999
Elected a Guarantor of Brain, 1999
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2000
President of the Psychology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000
President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 2001
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001
Conferment of an Honorary Doctorate, Paris-Lodron University, Salzburg, 2003
IgNobel Prize for MEDICINE, 2003
Eleanor Maguire, David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner, Richard Frackowiak, and Christopher Frith of University College London, for presenting evidence that the brains of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens. Published in: "Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers
Conferment of an Honorary Doctorate (Jointly with Uta Frith), University of York, 2004
Robert Sommer Award (Jointly with Uta Frith), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, 2004
Henry Guze Award (Jointly with S-J Blakemore & D A Oakley) for best research paper (Delusions of Alien Control in the Normal Brain, Neuropsychologia, 41, 1058-67), The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2004
Burghölzli Award (Jointly with Uta Frith), Zürich, 2005
Trinity Term, Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 2006
Elected a Fellow of the British Academy, 2008
Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience, British Neuroscience Association, 2008
British Psychological Society Book Award for "Making up the Mind", 2008
Strömgren Medal, University of Aarhus, 2009
European Latsis Prize "The Human Brain - The Human Mind" (jointly with U Frith), 2009
Fondation Fyssen Prize, "Neuropsychology", 2009
Elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association, 2010
Elected Two Year Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, 2011
Membership of professional and scientific organisations (nd):
Chartered Clinical Psychologist, British Psychological Society
Experimental Psychology Society
Associate member of the British Psychological Society
British Academy
British Neuropsychology Society
British Neuropsychiatry Association
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Society for Neuroscience
European Brain and Behaviour Society
Royal Society
Academy of Medical Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association of Scientific Psychology
Committee membership, past & present:
Wellcome Trust Principal Fellows Interview Panel, 2007-2010
Scientific Advisory Board, Centre of Excellence on Systems Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Helsinki University of Technology, 2007-2010
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Committee, 2005-2007
Royal Society Small Grants committee, 2000-2003
Royal Society Soirée Committee, 2002-2004.
Research Committee of the Mental Health Foundation
MRC Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials Committee
MRC Schizophrenia and Allied Conditions Committee
Sub-committee for the assessment of the
MRC Brain metabolism Unit, Edinburgh, July, 1994.
Advisory Panel for the Identikit Exhibition, Science Museum
Committee of the Experimental Psychology Society,
Committee of the British Neuropsychological Society. |