William Wisden#
| Membership Number: | 5586 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/w.wisden |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4743-0334 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Chair and Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Imperial College London, UK
- 2019 - present Affiliate - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, UK
- 2018 - present Group Leader, UK Dementia Research Institute, UK
- 2005 - 2009 Professor & Chair of Neuroscience, University of Aberdeen, UK
- 2001 - 2005 Group Leader, IZN, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1993 - 2001 Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
- 1990 - 1992 Postdoctoral researcher, EMBO Long-Term Fellowship, ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- 1986 - 1990 PhD student, MRC Molecular Neurobiology Unit, Cambridge, UK
- 1983 - 1986 Undergraduate, Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Hypothalamus
- Neural circuitry
- NREM
- REM
- Sedation
- Neurotransmitter
- Wake
- Sleep
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2014 Elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 1993 - 1996 Elected by open competition to a Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
- 1990 - 1992 EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship
