Geraint Rees
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Geraint Ellis Rees FMedSci FRCP is Vice-Provost of research, innovation & global engagement[3] at University College London (UCL). Previously he served as Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences,[4] UCL Pro-Provost (Academic Planning),[5] Pro-Vice-Provost (AI) [6] and a Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. He is also a Director of UCL Business, a trustee of the Alan Turing Institute, a trustee of the Francis Crick Institute and a trustee of the Guarantors of Brain.
Geraint Rees | |
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Born | Geraint Ellis Rees (1967-11-27) 27 November 1967 (age 56)[citation needed] Cambridge, UK |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) University of Oxford (BM, BCh) University College London (PhD) |
Awards | Crick Lecture 2007[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cognitive neuroscience Functional MRI Consciousness[2] |
Institutions | University College London Francis Crick Institute DeepMind California Institute of Technology |
Thesis | An investigation of the neural correlates of selective attention in humans using functional imaging (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Chris Frith |
Website | www |
Until 2021 he was a founding Trustee of the charity in2scienceUK; until 2016 he was a member of the Francis Crick Institute Executive Team; from 2012 - 2014 he was Deputy Head of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences,[7] and from 2009 to 2014 the Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.[8][9] He held a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship[10] from 2003 to 2018.