Raymond J. Dolan

Ray Dolan is Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at UCL. He was the founding Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging (2006-2015). His research addresses the neurobiology of emotion and decision making, including how decision making breaks down in neurological and psychiatric disease. He has published over 700 peer-reviewed research papers. He has received numerous awards including the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award (2004), the Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award (2006), the International Max Planck Research Award (2007), International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, Cologne (2013), The Brain Prize (2017) and The Ferrier Medal and Lecture, Royal Society (2019). Between 2010-2014 he has been Visiting Einstein Fellow at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2000, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2010 and an External Member of the Max Planck Society (MPS) in 2012. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He established the first Centre for Computational Psychiatry at UCL, a joint venture with the Max Planck Society (MPS) and where he serves as Director.