Geraint Rees
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Geraint Rees in August 2010
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| Born | Geraint Ellis Rees 27 November 1967 Cambridge, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London |
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Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (1985–1988) New College, Oxford (1988–1991) University College London (1995–1999) |
| Thesis | An investigation of the neural correlates of selective attention in humans using functional imaging (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Chris Frith |
| Known for | Consciousness research, brain imaging |
| Notable awards | Crick Lecture 2007 |
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Geraint Ellis Rees FMedSci is Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences and a Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at University College London. He is also a member of the Francis Crick Institute Executive Team and a Director of the Imanova Centre for Imaging Sciences. From 2012 - 2014 he was Deputy Head of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, and from 2009 - 2014 the Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
After medical training in Cambridge, Oxford and London, he completed his PhD degree under the supervision of Chris Frith at University College London's Functional Imaging Laboratory in 1999. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Christof Koch's laboratory at the California Institute of Technology for two years before returning to the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London in 2001. In 2002 he became a group leader with the award of a Senior Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. His Senior Fellowship was renewed in 2007 and 2012. His work has been internationally recognised with the award in 2003 of the Young Investigator Medal of The Organization for Human Brain Mapping. In 2007 he was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society Prize and gave the Royal Society Francis Crick Lecture. In February 2009 he gave the Goulstonian lecture of the Royal College of Physicians. His work has been (ISI) cited 13,302 times; his ISI H-index is 58, his Google Scholar H-index is 73 and his I10-index is 195. He was Secretary and Treasurer of the Guarantors of Brain, and an Associate Editor of the journal Brain between 2007-2014 and remains a trustee of the charity. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He was a member of the Medical Research Council Neuroscience and Mental Health Board 2008-2012 and a member of the Medical Programme (subsequently Professional) Board for England from its inception until 2012. His Who's Who entry lists his recreation as 'achieving a better work/life balance'
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