Citizenship UK | Name Daniel Wolpert Nationality British | |
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Born Daniel Mark Wolpert 8 September 1963 (age 61) England ( 1963-09-08 ) Institutions University College LondonUniversity of CambridgeMIT Thesis Overcoming time delays in sensorimotor control (1992) Doctoral students Paul BaysSarah-Jayne BlakemoreDiana BurkAntonia HamiltonJames IngramArne NagengastArbora ResulajEdward TurnhamPhilipp VetterHugo VincentAlice Witney | ||
Residence Cambridge, United Kingdom | ||
Daniel wolpert the real reason for brains
Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS FMedSci (born 8 September 1963) is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology. He is Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2005, and also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from 2013.
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- Daniel wolpert the real reason for brains
- Daniel wolpert
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards and honours
- Personal life
- References
Daniel wolpert
Early life and education
Wolpert was educated at the Hall School and Westminster School. He went on to the University of Cambridge to study mathematics. But after only a year he shifted to medicine, as he experienced "that medics were having much more fun than mathematicians." He completed a Bachelor of Arts in medical sciences in 1985. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BCh) in 1988, and PhD in physiology in 1992 from the University of Oxford.
Career
Wolpert pursued computational neuroscience as postdoctoral researcher (1992–1994) and McDonnell-Pew Fellow (1994–1995) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Daniel Wolpert on his qualification as medical doctor worked as Medical House officer in Oxford, in 1988. After completion of his research in 1995, he joined the faculty of Sobell Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London, as a Lecturer. He became Reader in Motor Neuroscience in 1999, and full Professor in 2002. He was appointed to Professor of Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in 2005. In 2013, he also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology.
Awards and honours
Wolpert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012, his nomination reads
Other awards include:
Personal life
Wolpert is the son of a renowned South-African born developmental and evolutionary biologist Lewis Wolpert, and his wife Elizabeth (née Brownstein).
Since 1990, Wolpert has been married to Mary Anne Shorrock; they have two daughters.