Daniel Wolpert
Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS FMedSci is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology. He was Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2005, and also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from 2013.[ He is now Professor of Neurobiology at Columbia University.]Early life and education
Wolpert was educated at the Hall School and Westminster School. He went on to the University of Cambridge to study mathematics, but after only a year he shifted to medicine, as it seemed to him "that medics were having much more fun than mathematicians." He completed a Bachelor of Arts in medical sciences in 1985, then completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1988, and PhD in physiology in 1992 from the University of Oxford.Career
Wolpert pursued computational neuroscience as postdoctoral researcher and McDonnell-Pew Fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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. In 2018, he moved to Columbia University to become Professor of Neurobiology.Awards and honours
Wolpert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012, his nomination reads Other awards include:
Wolpert is the son of a renowned South-African born developmental and evolutionary biologist Lewis Wolpert, and his wife Elizabeth.
Since 1990, Wolpert has been married to Mary Anne Shorrock; they have two daughters.
