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Prof Marcus Richards
Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology Programme Leader Medical Research Council
MRC Unit for Lifelong Hlth & Ageing
Population Science & Experimental Medicine
- Joined UCL
- 27th Feb 1996
Research summary
The research programme of Marcus Richards is focused on the life course epidemiology of mental ageing and its consequences for health and function; this combines a long interest in cognition and mental health, with an equal emphasis on biomedical and social science approaches.
Biography
Marcus Richards is a Programme Leader at the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, and a Professor of Psychology in Epidemiology at the Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London. He read Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, and obtained a PhD at London University in the physiology of human learning. He has held appointments at Columbia University in New York and King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience to conduct research into neurodegenerative diseases of ageing, and was one of the first recipients of an Alzheimer's Society Research Fellowship. He joined the MRC National Survey of Health and Development team in 1996.