Geraint Rees

Geraint Rees
FMedSci FRCP
Born
Geraint Ellis Rees

(1967-11-27) 27 November 1967 (age 56)[citation needed]
Cambridge, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
University of Oxford (BM, BCh)
University College London (PhD)
AwardsCrick Lecture 2007[1]
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive neuroscience
Functional MRI
Consciousness[2]
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Francis Crick Institute
DeepMind
California Institute of Technology
ThesisAn investigation of the neural correlates of selective attention in humans using functional imaging (1999)
Doctoral advisorChris Frith
Websitewww.ucl.ac.uk/icn/people/geraint-rees Edit this at Wikidata

Geraint Ellis Rees is a British scientist who 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 Francis Crick Institute Executive Team; from 2012 - 2014 he was Deputy Head of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences,[7] and from 2009 to 2014 the Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.[8][9] He held a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship[10] from 2003 to 2018.

  1. ^ http://royalsociety.org/awards/francis-crick-lecture/ Crick lecturers
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference gs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Professor Rees took up the role of UCL Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement), having served as Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences from 2014-2022". 30 May 2014.
  4. ^ "New Dean for UCL Faculty of Life Sciences". 30 May 2014.
  5. ^ "New Pro-Provost (Academic Planning) announced to help deliver UCL's new strategy". 8 June 2021.
  6. ^ "New Pro-Vice-Provost(AI)". 9 June 2019.
  7. ^ "UCL - London's Global University".
  8. ^ UCL Staff Profile Archived 2011-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~grees/ Rees laboratory homepage
  10. ^ http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2010/News/WTX059334.htm Wellcome Trust Press Release: Wellcome Trust researchers elected as Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences