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Daniel Wolpert

Daniel Wolpert
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Born Daniel Mark Wolpert
(1963-09-08) 8 September 1963 (age 53)
England
Residence Cambridge
Citizenship UK
Nationality British
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Overcoming time delays in sensorimotor control (1992)
Doctoral advisor John Stein
Doctoral students
  • Paul Bays
  • Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
  • Diana Burk
  • Antonia Hamilton
  • James Ingram
  • Arne Nagengast
  • Arbora Resulaj
  • Edward Turnham
  • Philipp Vetter
  • Hugo Vincent
  • Alice Witney
Notable awards
Spouse Mary Anne Shorrock
Website
wolpertlab.com

Daniel Mark Wolpert FRSFMedSci (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.

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.

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.


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