Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Greenfield
CBE, FRCP
Born
Susan Adele Greenfield

(1950-10-01) 1 October 1950 (age 73)
Chiswick, London, England[2]
Alma materSt Hilda's College, Oxford
Spouse
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(m. 1991; div. 2005)​
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AwardsCBE, Knight of the Legion of Honour
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisOrigins of acetylcholinesterase in cerebrospinal fluid (1977)
Doctoral advisorAnthony David Smith[1]
Susan Greenfield's voice
Recorded February 2011 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Four Thought
Websitewww.susangreenfield.com

Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE, FRCP[4] (born 1 October 1950) is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords (since 2001). Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. She is also interested in the neuroscience of consciousness[5] and the impact of technology on the brain.[6]

Greenfield is a senior research fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford;[7] she was a professor of Synaptic Pharmacology.[citation needed]

Greenfield was chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh between 2005 and 2013.[8] From 1998 to 2010, she was director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.[9] In September 2013, she co-founded the biotech company Neuro-bio Ltd, where she is chief executive officer.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference greenfieldphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Bell, Matthew (29 June 2013). "Susan Greenfield: After the science, the fiction". The Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
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  4. ^ House of Lords (2001). "Minutes and Order Paper – Minutes of Proceedings". UK Parliament House of Lords. Retrieved 27 October 2007.
  5. ^ Private Life of the Brain (2000), susangreenfield.com; accessed 5 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Screen Technologies". susangreenfield.com. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  7. ^ University of Oxford> Department of Pharmacology> Baroness Susan Greenfield Archived 12 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 12 June 2015.
  8. ^ Ford, Liz (31 January 2006). "Greenfield to be made Heriot-Watt chancellor". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  9. ^ The Times (9 January 2010). "Baroness Greenfield loses her job in Royal Institution shake-up". The Times. London, UK. Retrieved 9 January 2010.