Robin Angus Silver#
| Membership Number: | 5154 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://silverlab.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5480-6638 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. Dept. of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL
- 2005 - 2011 Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Dept. of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL
- 2004 - 2005 Reader and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Dept. of Physiology, UCL
- 2001 - 2004 Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer. Dept. of Physiology, UCL
- 1997 - 2001 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer. Dept. of Physiology, UCL
- 1990 - 1997 Post doctoral Research Fellow with Professor Cull-Candy in the Dept. of Pharmacology, UCL
Fields of Scholarship
- Synaptic transmission
- Optical Microscopy
- Computational neuroscience
- Neural circuits
- Neural computation
- Cerebellum
- Neocortex
- Neuroinformatics
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Fellow of the Royal Society.
- 2016 Principal Research Fellowship (renewal). The Wellcome Trust
- 2012 Distinguished Guest Scientist Fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Advanced Investigator Award, European Research Council
- 2011 Principal Research Fellowship. The Wellcome Trust
- 2006 Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science. The Wellcome Trust
- 2001 Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science. The Wellcome Trust
- 1996 Research Career Development Fellowship. The Wellcome Trust
