PROFESSOR SUSAN GREENFIELD
"Britain's premier brain scientist."... The Daily Mail
Susan Greenfield read for a first degree at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently worked for a DPhil in the University Department of Pharmacology.
She subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Physiology, Oxford, the College de France, Paris and NYU Medical Center, New York, until being appointed in 1985 as University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College.
Subsequently she has also held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute of Neuroscience, La Jolla and was the 1996 Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Queens University, Belfast. The title of Professor of Pharmacology was conferred in 1996.
In 1997 she was awarded an Honorary DSc by Oxford Brookes University and received Honorary DSc degrees in 1998 from the University of St. Andrew's and Exeter University. In November of this year she is being awarded an Honorary DSc by Sheffield Hallam University. She became Director of The Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1998.
Apart from her primary research where she heads a group of eighteen scientists studying Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, she has developed an interest in the physical basis of the mind. In 1987 she edited
"Mindwaves" (B. Blackwell) with Colin Blakemore and in 1995 published her own theory of consciousness "Journey to the Centres of the Mind" (W. H. Freeman).
Greenfield also makes contributions to the public understanding of science. In 1994 she was the first woman to be invited to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures and has subsequently made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and radio.
she has given the Dimbleby lecture for BBC1 - the main theme of which was "The Future could be too much fun".
In 1995 she was elected to the Gresham Chair of Physic, which entails giving six public lectures a year in the City of London.
She has also given a consultative seminar to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at Downing Street.
She is a Trustee of the Science Museum and also makes contributions to the communication of Science in the media.
She has made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and Radio as well as appearing in Tomorrow's World and Innovations and has participated in more general programmes such as 'Start the Week'. 'Any Questions', 'Desert Island Discs' and 'Question Time'. She also wrote and presented her own BBC 2 TV highly successful series, `Brain Story,' in July 2000.
She was general editor in 1996 for "The Human Mind Explained"
(Cassell) and has authored
"The Human Brain - A Guided Tour"
which reached the best seller list. In addition she writes a column for The Independent on aspects of science as well as contributions to The Times, The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph. She was ranked by Harpers and Queen as number fourteen in the "50 Most Inspirational Women in the World".
"Fiercely bright, brilliant communicator. Not bad fun either."
... The Independent
"One of the most inspirational women in the world."
... Harpers & Queen