Edmund T. Rolls is a neuroscientist and Professor at the University of Warwick. Rolls is a neuroscientist with research interests in computational neuroscience, including the operation of real neuronal networks in the brain involved in vision, memory, attention, and decision-making; functional neuroimaging of vision, taste, olfaction, feeding, the control of appetite, memory, and emotion; neurological disorders of emotion; psychiatric disorders including depression and schizophrenia; and the brain processes underlying consciousness. These studies include investigations in patients, and are performed with the aim of contributing to understanding the human brain in health and disease, and of treating its disorders. He has published more than 620 full length research papers on these topics, which are shown, with many PDFs available including PDFs of some of his books, at the Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience website, .
Rolls was elected to a Fellowship by Examination at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Rolls was then Lecturer and later Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Rolls also served as Fellow and Tutor in Psychology at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. In 2008, Rolls moved to the University of Warwick, where he is Professor of Computational Neuroscience, to perform full-time research. Rolls was also appointed as a Distinguished Chair Professor, at the Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence at Fudan University, Shanghai. Research Impact. Rolls was ranked in 2019 as the 18th most cited scientist in the UK, and the 150th most cited scientist in the world out of 6,880,389 in any field of science who have published more than 5 papers across every scientific field . Rolls was at the same time ranked as the 20th most cited neuroscientist in the world, and 3rd in the UK. Rolls has served as a member of the Council, and the Secretary of the Council, of the European Neuroscience Association ; Secretary of the European Brain and Behaviour Society; and a member of the Fellowships Committee of the Human Frontier Science Program. He also served as Associate Director of the Medical Research CouncilInterdisciplinary Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford for 1990-2003, and founding member of the Board of the Oxford McDonnell Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience for 1990-2008. He was awarded the degree of Hon DSc by the Medical University of Toyama, Japan in 2005.
Selected Papers
Rolls, E. T. Neuropsychologia 128: 14-43.
Rolls, E. T.. Neuroscienceand Biobehavioral Reviews 68: 47–58.
