Cognitive Neuroscience

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Professor of Differential Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh
• Director, Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh

EDUCATION:
• BSc Hons (Medical Sciences) Psychology, Class I, University of Edinburgh, 1980
• MBChB (1 class medal, 3 distinctions, 4 prizes), University of Edinburgh, 1983
• MRCPsych (Membership Examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists) 1991
• PhD (Auditory Inspection Time and Intelligence), University of Edinburgh, 1992

FELLOWSHIPS:
• FRCPE, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1996
• FRSE, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2003
• FBA, Fellow of the British Academy, 2003
• FMedSci, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2007
• FRCPsych, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2008

AWARDS:
• Tenovus Scotland Margaret MacLellan Award 2006
• University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Award 2003
• Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award 2003-2007
• British Psychological Society Book Award 2002 for Looking Down on Human Intelligence: From Psychometrics to the Brain (Oxford University Press)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Human intelligence differences
• Cognitive ageing
• Cognitive epidemiology
• Personality traits
• Medically unexplained symptoms
• General psychometric research