Daniel Wolpert, Ph.D.

Daniel Wolpert read medical sciences at the University of Cambridge and clinical medicine at the University of Oxford. He completed a Ph.D. in the physiology department at Oxford and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then moved to the Institute of Neurology, University College London, where he became professor in 2002. In 2005, he took up the post of professor of engineering at the University of Cambridge and was made a Fellow of Trinity College. In 2013, he was appointed to the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology. In 2018, he joined the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, where he is currently professor of neuroscience and vice-chair of the Department of Neuroscience.

Wolpert was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004, awarded the Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture in 2005 and the Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award in 2010. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He received the Royal Society Ferrier medal in 2020. His research interests are computational and experimental approaches to human movement.