Raymond Joseph Dolan (born 21 January 1954)[2] is an Irish neuroscientist and the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at University College London, where he was also the founding director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.[3][4]

Honours and awards

In 2006 he was awarded the Golden Brain Award by the Minerva Foundation. In 2015 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was one of three recipients of the 2017 Brain Prize, along with Peter Dayan and Wolfram Schultz.[5]

He is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Association for Psychological Science.[6] In 2016, he was ranked by Semantic Scholar as the second-most influential neuroscientist in the modern world, behind only his UCL colleague Karl Friston.[7]

In 2019 he was awarded the Ferrier Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society.[8]

References

  1. ^ UCL (1 September 2018). "Professor Ray Dolan announced as recipient of the NSI Distinguished Investigator Award". UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Press release). Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Biography of Ray Dolan". The Brain Prize. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Prof Ray Dolan". Institutional Research Information Service. University College London. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
  4. ^ "About". Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. University College London. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  5. ^ "The 2017 Brain Prize awarded to Ray Dolan, Peter Dayan and Wolfram Schultz". Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research (Press release). 6 March 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Raymond Dolan". The Royal Society. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  7. ^ Bohannon, John (10 November 2016). "A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era". Science. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Ferrier Medal and Lecture winner 2019". Rotyal Society. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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