Daniel Wolpert
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| Born | Daniel Mark Wolpert 8 September 1963 England |
| Residence | Cambridge |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Nationality | British |
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| Thesis | Overcoming time delays in sensorimotor control (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Stein |
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| Spouse | Mary Anne Shorrock |
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Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS[5] FMedSci (born 8 September 1963)[6] 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.[1][7][8][9][10][10][11][12][13]
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Early life and education
Wolpert was educated at the Hall School and Westminster School.[6] 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."[14] 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.[15]
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.[16] 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.[7]
Awards and honours
Wolpert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012, his nomination reads
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- 1982–1985 Thomas Cannon Brooke’s Scholarship for Mathematics, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- 1989–1992 Senior Scholarship, Lincoln College, Oxford
- 1992–1995 Fulbright Scholarship
- 2004 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2005 Swartz foundation Mind-Brain Lecture, Stony Brook University
- 2005 Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture
- 2005 Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 2007 Alice and Joseph Brooks International Lecture, Harvard University
- 2007 Annual Cognitive Science Lecture, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 Fred Kavli Distinguished International Scientist Lecture, Society for Neuroscience
- 2010 Golden Brain Award of the Minerva Foundation
- 2012 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 2012 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (for seven years)
- 2013 Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology
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.[6]
References
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- Cambridge Research Systems Ltd.
- Think 2012 lecture
- Smart Moves: Daniel Wolpert, Motor Control and the Brain
- 13th Queen Square Symposium: Interview with Professor Daniel Wolpert
- Golden Brain archive at Minerva Foundation
- Brief biography at The Conversation
- Neurotree
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