![]() | Geraint creates human capital for science that transforms society. He delivers strategic leadership in three key areas: to UCL’s large cohorts of clinical academic and biomedical training fellows; energising cross-disciplinary enterprise and innovation within the School of Life and Medical Sciences; and developing UCL’s strategic partnership with the major new Francis Crick Institute. He directs the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, one of the world’s leading centres for the study of mental processes in the human brain, and in his academic work as a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow he leads an internationally renowned research group studying the neural basis of human consciousness. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010. |
Looking back today
"The Battle of Ideas gives a forum for the most topical of debates and the healthy exchange of ideas - in our session what interested most was the contributions from the floor, also just the sheer buzz of the crowds in the foyers."
Jeremy Musson, writer and historic buildings consultant; former architectural editor, Country Life



