Professor Ray Dolan announced as recipient of the NSI Distinguished Investigator Award

This award, named for our colleague and former President who passed away at a young age in 2013, is awarded to Irish neuroscientists who have made an outstanding international contribution to neuroscience research.

Professor Dolan was born in Galway, Ireland and completed his medical degree at University College Galway (now National University of Ireland, Galway). He went on to pursue a career as a neuropsychiatrist in London where he established himself as one of the world’s top international neuroscientists. Ray is currently Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing. His research addresses the neurobiology of emotion and decision making, how emotion impacts on cognition and its aberrant expression in disease. He has published over 500 peer reviewed papers and is among the world’s most influential and highly cited neuroscientists. Ray is a Fellow of both the Royal Society in the UK and the Royal Irish Academy, and was joint winner of the Brain Prize in 2017.

Ray will be presented with his award at the BNA’s “Festival of Neuroscience” in Dublin in April 2019, where he will also give the opening Plenary Lecture in advance of the welcome reception.

Source: Neuroscience Ireland

Further information

• Neuroscience Ireland
• Professor Dolan's academic profile
• BNA’s “Festival of Neuroscience"