Curriculum Vitae

Richard Nevill Astley Henson

Personal Details

• Nationality: British
• Date of Birth: August 31st, 1970
• Work Address: MRC CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF
• Work Tel: +44 (0)1223 355 294 ext 522

Education & Employment

• 2010-..., Assistant Director, MRC CBSU
• 2004-..., Programme Leader, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU)
• 2003-04, Honorary Principal, Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL), UCL
• 2003-04, Group Leader, Cognitive Electrophysiology Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN), UCL
• 2000-04, Wellcome Career Development Fellowship, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (WDIN), UCL
• 1997-00, Wellcome Research Fellow, WDIN, UCL, with Prof Tim Shallice and Prof Ray Dolan
• 1996-97, BBSRC Research Fellow, Psychology and Anatomy Departments, UCL, with Prof Graham Hitch and Dr Neil Burgess
• 1993-96, PhD at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge University, with Prof Alan Baddeley, Dr Dennis Norris and Dr Mike Page
• 1992-93, MSc (Distinction) in Information Technology: Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
• 1989-92, MA (Hons) in Natural Sciences; Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University, St John's college
• 1981-88, Secondary education: Judd School, Tonbridge, 10 GCE O-Levels; 4 GCE A-Levels, all 'A' grade

Other Qualifications

• 2003, Visiting Professor, University of Liverpool
• 2003, Eleventh Experimental Psychology Society Prize
• 2000, Wellcome Career Development Fellowship
• 1998, British Psychological Society Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Research
• 1993, Rank Xerox Prize for best MSc Dissertation, Department of AI, Edinburgh University
• 1991, Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award
• 1989, Three year University Sponsorship from AEA Technology, Culham Laboratory
• 1989, UK Representative, US High School Honours Program in Computing, Livermore, California
• 1988, Judd School Governors' Leaving Exhibition Prize, Maths Prize, Bentall Physics Prize

Professional Associations/Responsibilities

• Section Editor, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, Neuroimage (2005-08)
• Committee Member, Experimental Psychology Society (2004-07)
• Member, Memory Disorders Research Society

Internal CBU Responsibilities

• Chair of Imaging Management Committee, 2010-present
• Chair of CamCAN Cognitive Domain Committe, 2010-present
• Member of the Equality Committee, 2009-present
• Chair of Imaging Interest Group, 2004-2010
• Deputy-Chair of the MEG Management Committee, 2008-2010

Academic Interests

Cognitive neuroscience, in particular priming, episodic memory, visual object perception; methodology and philosophy of functional neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG, MEG), Statistics, Computational modelling.

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