Geraint Rees
Geraint Ellis Rees FMedSci FRCP is Vice-Provost of research, innovation & global engagement at University College London (UCL). Previously he served as Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL Pro-Provost (Academic Planning), Pro-Vice-Provost (AI) 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 27 November 1967 Cambridge, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) University of Oxford (BM, BCh) University College London (PhD) |
| Awards | Crick Lecture 2007 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive neuroscience Functional MRI Consciousness |
| 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, and from 2009 to 2014 the Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. He held a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship from 2003 to 2018.