Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)
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Neil Burgess | |
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.jpg) Burgess in 2017 | |
| Born | 13 July 1966 Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Education | |
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| Spouse |
Cathryn McDowell (m. 1997) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Royal Society University Research Fellowship[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience[2] |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Thesis | Neural networks, human memory and optimisation (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Moore[3] |
| Website | www |
Neil Burgess (born 13 July 1966) is a British neuroscientist. He has been a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London since 2004[4] and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow since 2011.[2][5][6][7][8] He has made important contributions to understanding memory and spatial cognition by developing computational models relating behaviour to activity in biological neural networks.[1]
Neil Burgess was born on 13 July 1966 in Oakington, Cambridgeshire, to Alan and Lore Burgess (née Freudenthal). He was educated at three schools in Cambridge: Newnham Croft Primary School, Parkside Community College, and Hills Road Sixth Form College.[8]
Burgess studied mathematics and physics as an undergraduate at University College London, graduating with first-class honours in 1987.[1] He then completed postgraduate study in theoretical physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, supervised by Michael Moore,[3][9] where he began working on models of memory with Graham Hitch.[1] Burgess was awarded a PhD in 1990.[3]
