Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees | |||||||||||
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| Thesis | An investigation of the neural correlates of selective attention in humans using functional imaging (1999) | ||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Chris Frith | ||||||||||
| Website | www FRCP is Vice-Provost of research, innovation & global engagement[3] at University College London (UCL). Previously he served as Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences,[4] UCL Pro-Provost (Academic Planning),[5] Pro-Vice-Provost (AI) [6] and a Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London. He is also a Director of UCL Business, a trustee of the Alan Turing Institute, a trustee of the Francis Crick Institute and a trustee of the Guarantors of Brain.
Until 2021 he was a founding Trustee of the charity in2scienceUK; until 2016 he was a member of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.[8][9] He held a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship[10] from 2003 to 2018.
EducationRees received his Medical Science Tripos in 1988 from the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[11] He moved to the University of Oxford where he received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BCh) degree in 1991 where he was a student of New College, Oxford.[11] He completed his PhD under the supervision of Chris Frith at University College London's Functional Imaging Laboratory in 1999.[12]
Career and researchAfter his PhD, Rees then worked as a Goulstonian lecture of the Royal College of Physicians .
As of March 2024, his work has been cited 28,872 (ISI) or 50,778 He served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Guarantors of Brain, and an Associate Editor of the journal Rees research interests More recently, he has worked on neurodegeneration, collaborating with DeepMind .
He co-edited a large reference book entitled the Neurobiology of Attention[24] with Laurent Itti and John Tsotsos, and is the author of numerous articles and invited reviews on the functional imaging of consciousness. He was a member of the board of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness until stepping down in 2007, and with Patrick Wilken organised its tenth annual meeting that was held at St. Anne's College, Oxford in June 2006. In 2011, Rees co-authored a neuroscience paper, Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults together with among others actor Colin Firth,[25] who had suggested on BBC Radio 4 that such a paper could be written.[26] Teaching and trainingRees is currently Director of the UCL SLMS Academic Careers Office[27] which delivers strategy and support to academics and clinical academics at UCL. He directs a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme and a large MRC Doctoral Training Programme associated with the ACO. Previously Rees was the elected Deputy Chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Academic Staff Committee (MASC) 2007-12, and led on policy development concerning medical academic training. He was a member of the Medical Programme Board for England 2007-2012 and chaired the MPB Recruitment Task and Finish Group overseeing recruitment of all trainee doctors in England. He served on the 'Walport' committee of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration developing Academic Clinical Fellow and Clinical Lecturer schemes, and leads the local ACF and CL schemes at University College London. He was also course director for over a decade for the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) Part 1 courses in London run by Pastest. Enterprise and innovationRees is a Non-Executive Director of UCL Business PLC,[28] the technology transfer company associated with UCL. He was also a Senior Scientific Advisor at Google DeepMind between 2015-2020.[29] Rees was Chair of the Knowledge Transfer and Enterprise Board,[30] of the UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences between 2014-2017. He was a Director of Imanova Limited,[31] a molecular imaging company until August 2017 when it was acquired by Invicro. References
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