Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)

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Neil Burgess FRS FMedSci
Burgess in 2017
Born	(1966-07-13) 13 July 1966 (age 58) Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England
Education	Newnham Croft Primary School Parkside Community College Hills Road Sixth Form College
Alma mater	University College London University of Manchester
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.ucl.ac.uk/icn/neilburgess

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]

Early life and education

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]

Research and career

Burgess has developed models to explain how networks of neurons allow us to represent, remember and imagine our location within the surrounding environment.^[1] These models provide a quantitative understanding of how spatial memory,^[10] episodic memory and autobiographical memory^[11] function (and dysfunction) depend on human brain activity. With Tom Hartley at the University of York and Colin Lever at Durham University he both predicted and discovered neurons representing environmental boundaries.^[1]^[12]

Awards and honours

Burgess was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017^[1] having previously held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 1993 to 2001.^[8]

Personal life

Burgess married Cathryn Jane McDowell in 1997. They have two sons and one daughter.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Anon (2017). "Professor Neil Burgess FMedSci FRS". London: royalsociety.org. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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^ ^a ^b Neil Burgess publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ ^a ^b ^c Burgess, Neil (1990). Neural networks, human memory and optimisation. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. Copac 36585289.
^ Anon (2017). "Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Director: Professor Neil Burgess FMedSci FRS". University College London. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
^ Anon (2017). "Professor Neil Burgess". University College London. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013.
^ 57216060199 Neil Burgess publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Neil Burgess publications from Europe PubMed Central
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Burgess, Prof. Neil". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2022. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U289276. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Burgess, Neil; Shapiro, Jonathan L.; Moore, Michael A. (1991). "Neural network models of list learning". Network: Computation in Neural Systems. 2 (4): 399–422. doi:10.1088/0954-898X_2_4_005. ISSN 0954-898X.
^ Burgess, Neil; Maguire, Eleanor A; O'Keefe, John (2002). "The Human Hippocampus and Spatial and Episodic Memory". Neuron. 35 (4): 625–641. doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(02)00830-9. PMID 12194864. S2CID 11989085.
^ Lin, Wen-Jing; Horner, Aidan J.; Burgess, Neil (2016). "Ventromedial prefrontal cortex, adding value to autobiographical memories". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 28630. Bibcode:2016NatSR...628630L. doi:10.1038/srep28630. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4919650. PMID 27338616.
^ Hartley, Tom; Lever, Colin; Burgess, Neil; O'Keefe, John (2013). "Space in the brain: how the hippocampal formation supports spatial cognition". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 369 (1635): 20120510. doi:10.1098/rstb.2012.0510. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 3866435. PMID 24366125.

v t e Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2017
Fellows	Yves-Alain Barde Tony Bell Christopher Bishop Neil Burgess Keith Beven Wendy Bickmore Krishna Chatterjee James Durrant Warren East Tim Elliott Anne Ferguson-Smith Jonathan Gregory Mark Gross Roy Harrison Gabriele Hegerl Eddie Holmes Richard Houlston Yvonne Jones Subhash Khot Julia King Stafford Lightman Yadvinder Malhi Andrew McKenzie Gerard Milburn Anne Neville Alison Noble Andrew Orr-Ewing David Owen Lawrence Paulson Josephine Pemberton Sandu Popescu Sarah Price Anne Ridley David Rubinsztein Gavin Salam Nigel Shadbolt Angus Silver Gordon Slade Pete Smith Nicola Spaldin Jonathan Stoye John Sutherland J. Roy Taylor Jenny Thomas Patrick Vallance Susanne von Caemmerer Hugh Watkins Roger Williams Ken Wolfe Andy Woods
Honorary	David Neuberger
Foreign	Max Cooper Whitfield Diffie Robert Grubbs Hideo Hosono Marcia McNutt Ginés Morata Robert Ritchie Thomas Südhof David Tilman Susan Wessler

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