David Willshaw

Chair in Computational Neurobiology

Currently Professor of Computational Neurobiology within the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
PhD thesis, "Models of Distributed Associative Memory", completed in 1971 at the University of Edinburgh under the supervisor of Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
Began career in 1970 as a Research Fellow in the Theoretical Psychology Unit, School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, before moving to the Max-Planck Institut fuer Biophysikalische Chemie, Goettingen, Germany in 1973.
Joined the MRC as a Training Fellow in 1977, based at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, and became a Staff Member in 1980.
In 1984, became a member of MRC Scientific Staff, based at the Department of Zoology, then in 1988 joined the Centre for Cognitive Science (both at the University of Edinburgh)
Promoted to MRC Professor equivalent in 1996, and awarded an Honorary Professorship within the Faculty of Science, University of Edinburgh.
From 1998-2004, was the Head of the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
September 2006, awarded a Personal Chair in Computational Neurobiology within the School of Informatics.

2007 onwards, UK Representative on the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility arising from membership of the OECD Working Group in Neuroinformatics for the Global Megascience Forum (2001-2003).
2003-2007, Chairman of EPSRC/MRC/BBSRC UK Network in Neuroinformatics.
2002-2008, UK Member of Selection Committee and subsequently Advisory Boards of the Bernstein Computational Neuroscience Centres, German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany.
2003-2008, Member of International Advisory Council for RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.
1998-2005: Editor-in-Chief of Network: Computation in Neural Systems.

2002: Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics
2000: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
1992: Awarded the IEEE Neural Networks Council Pioneer medal, for valued services and contributions to the field of neural network.