Timothy Behrens (neuroscientist)

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Timothy E.J. Behrens FRS is a British neuroscientist. He is Deputy Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroscience Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Lecturer at, Wellcome Centre for Imaging Neuroscience, University College London. [1]

He earned an M.Eng. and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. [1]

In 2020 he won the UK Life Sciences Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, having been a finalist for this award in 2018 and 2019. [1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Timothy Behrens". Blavatnik Awards Young Scientists. American Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  2. "Timothy Behrens". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.