Daniel Wolpert

Daniel Wolpert
Born Daniel Mark Wolpert
(1963-09-08) 8 September 1963
England
Residence Cambridge
Citizenship UK
Nationality British
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Overcoming time delays in sensorimotor control (1992)
Doctoral advisor John Stein
Doctoral students
  • Paul Bays
  • Sarah-Jayne Blakemore[2][3]
  • Diana Burk
  • Antonia Hamilton
  • James Ingram
  • Arne Nagengast
  • Arbora Resulaj
  • Edward Turnham
  • Philipp Vetter
  • Hugo Vincent
  • Alice Witney[4]
Notable awards
Spouse Mary Anne Shorrock
Website
wolpertlab.com

Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS[5] FMedSci (born 8 September 1963)[6] is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology. He is Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2005, and also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from 2013.[1][7][8][9][10][10][11][12][13]

Early life and education

Daniel Wolpert is the son of a renowned South-African born developmental and evolutionary biologist Lewis Wolpert, and his wife Elizabeth (née Brownstein). He was educated at the Hall School and Westminster School.[6] He went on to the University of Cambridge to study mathematics. But after only a year he shifted to medicine, as he experienced "that medics were having much more fun than mathematicians."[14] He completed a Bachelor of Arts in medical sciences in 1985. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BCh) in 1988, and PhD in physiology in 1992 from the University of Oxford.[15]

Career

Wolpert pursued computational neuroscience as postdoctoral researcher (1992–1994) and McDonnell-Pew Fellow (1994–1995) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[16] Daniel Wolpert on his qualification as medical doctor worked as Medical House officer in Oxford, in 1988. After completion of his research in 1995, he joined the faculty of Sobell Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London, as a Lecturer. He became Reader in Motor Neuroscience in 1999, and full Professor in 2002. He was appointed to Professor of Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in 2005. In 2013, he also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology.[7]

Awards and honours

Wolpert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012, his nomination reads

“ Daniel Wolpert is a world leader in the computational study of sensorimotor control and learning, transforming our understanding of how the brain controls movement. Combining theoretical and behavioural work, he has placed the field of sensorimotor control firmly within the probabilistic domain and shown how neural noise plays a pivotal role in determining both how we process information during action and how we generate actions. His empirical discoveries and theoretical work on internal models have shown how ubiquitous they are for a range of core processes from motor learning, through sensory processing to social cognition; and how disorders of internal models can lead to neuropsychological disorders.[5] ”

Other awards include:

Personal life

Since 1990, Wolpert has been married to Mary Anne Shorrock; they have two daughters.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Daniel Wolpert's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. ↑ Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (2000). Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions (PhD thesis). University College London.
  3. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (1999). "The cerebellum contributes to somatosensory cortical activity during self-produced tactile stimulation". NeuroImage 10 (4): 448–59. doi:10.1006/nimg.1999.0478. PMID 10493902.
  4. ↑ Daniel Wolpert CV
  5. 1 2 Professor Daniel Mark Wolpert FMedSci FRS
  6. 1 2 3 "WOLPERT, Prof. Daniel Mark". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  7. 1 2 "Sensorimotor Learning Group (Wolpertlab): News". Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  8. ↑ Daniel Wolpert's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  9. ↑ Wolpert, D. M.; Ghahramani, Z; Jordan, M. I. (1995). "An internal model for sensorimotor integration". Science (New York) 269 (5232): 1880–2. doi:10.1126/science.7569931. PMID 7569931.
  10. 1 2 Harris, C. M.; Wolpert, D. M. (1998). "Signal-dependent noise determines motor planning". Nature 394 (6695): 780–4. doi:10.1038/29528. PMID 9723616.
  11. ↑ Wolpert, D. M.; Kawato, M. (1998). "Multiple paired forward and inverse models for motor control". Neural Networks 11 (7–8): 1317–29. doi:10.1016/S0893-6080(98)00066-5. PMID 12662752.
  12. ↑ Daniel Wolpert at TED
  13. ↑ The real reason for brains by Daniel Wolpert on YouTube
  14. ↑ "13th Queen Square Symposium: Interview with Professor Daniel Wolpert". University College London. 29 March 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  15. ↑ Wolpert, Daniel Mark (1992). Overcoming time delays in visuomotor control (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
  16. ↑ "CURRICULUM VITAE" (PDF). University of Cambridge. 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

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