The recipient of this years NSI Tom Connor Distinguished Investigator Award is Prof Ray Dolan. Ray is Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, at UCL. His research addresses the neurobiology of emotion and decision making, how emotion impacts on cognition and its aberrant expression in disease. He will deliver a plenary lecture entitled “Decisions, uncertaininty and rewards” at the BNA2019 Fesitival of Neuroscience on Sunday 14th April 18.20-19.20. Read more information about Ray Dolan’s lecture here
The NSI Early Career Investigator Award will be awarded to Dr Kathy Ruddy. Kathy is a post-doctoral researcher at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience in Dublin, and the Neural Control of Movement Lab at ETH in Zürich. Her research interests include how brain rhythms are a key factor underpinning higher level human functioning, such as cognition. She will deliver a lecture on her work at the BNA2019 Fesitival of Neuroscience at the Early Career Researcher Prizewinners’ session on Tuesday 16th April from 15.30-17.30