Geraint Rees#
Membership Number: | 6549 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
Elected: | 2023 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-9623-7007 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 UCL Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement)
- 2006 Professor of Cognitive Neurology, UCL
- 2004 Honorary Consultant Neurologist, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- 2021 - 2022 UCL Pro-Provost (Academic Planning)
- 2019 - 2021 UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Artificial Intelligence)
- 2014 - 2022 Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences
- 2010 - 2014 Deputy Head of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
- 2008 - 2014 Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2002 - 2008 Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer UCL Institute of Neurology
- 1999 - 2002 Wellcome Advanced Fellow at the California Institute of Technology
- 1995 - 1999 Clinical Research Fellow UCL Institute of Neurology
Fields of Scholarship
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Machine learning
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Human cognition
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Vision
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2008 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
- 2007 Royal Society Francis Crick Lecture and Medal
- 2003 Wiley-Liss/Human Brain Mapping Young Investigator Award
- 2006 - 2011 EU NEST/Pathfinder ‘Mindbridge’ cooperative grant (with six European research groups)
- Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellowship held continuously between 2002 and 2018 (two renewals)