Richard Frackowiak MD, DSc

Richard Frackowiak is Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Université de Lausanne (UNIL) and it is Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV).

Formerly he served as Foundation Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London (UCL), Director of the Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC) at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, Wellcome Trust Principal Clinical Research Fellow and Vice-Provost of UCL after a period as Dean-Director of its Institute of Neurology. He founded the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience and its Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) in 1994.

Frackowiak has an MA and MD from Cambridge (Peterhouse), a DSc from London University, an honorary medical doctorate from Liege University and an honorary professorship from UCL. A Fellow of the Academies of Medical Sciences of the UK, France, and Belgium, he is a member of the Academia Europaea and a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine of the American Academies. He is past president of the British Neuroscience Association and of the European Brain and Behaviour Society.