Former Fellows

Fellow 1986-1991

Research Interests
Neural basis for active listening through the investigation of how neurons in the hearing centres of the brain adapt to the statistics of sound stimulation, which constantly change in real-life environments, integrate other sensory and motor-related signals, and adjust to the abnormal auditory inputs resulting from hearing impairment.

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E.P. Abraham Cephalosporin Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences at Lincoln College, 1986-1989
Visiting worker at the Eye Research Institute, Boston, Mass., June to October 1988
Appointed Lecturer in Neurology & Medicine, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1989
1990 Wellcome Prize in Physiology
Elected Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, 1.2.91
Fellowship renewed in 2000 to 2006
Appointed a University Research Lecturer, 1996
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996
Appointed Reader in Auditory Physiology, 2000
Elected to Senior Research Fellowship in Medical Sciences, Merton College, 2002
Co-Director, Oxford Hearing and Balance Centre, 2003
Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Oxford, 2004
Member of the National Committee of the British Neuroscience Association, 2004-2007
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, 2006
Elected to a Supernumerary Fellowship, Merton College, Oxford, 2007
Editorial Board, Journal of Neuroscience, 2009-2015
Member of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People Medical Advisory Panel, 2007-2011
Director, Wellcome Trust 4 year doctoral training programme in Neuroscience, University of Oxford, 2010-2025
Chief Research Advisor, Deafness Research (UK), 2011/13
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2011
Editorial Board, Journal of Physiology, 2011-2019
Appointed Member of the Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship Committee, 2012
Action on Hearing Loss PhD review panel, 2014-2017
Member of the Editorial Board, eLife, 2015, (Senior Editor since 2016)
Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship renewed, 2016
Director of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, 2016
Elected as a Fellow of the Physiological Society, 2017
Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2018
Elected to a Sir Henry Savile Fellowship, Merton College Oxford, 2023
Elected as a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2025

Fellow 1995-2000

Research Interests
Cancer biology: molecular control of cell proliferation and death. Specific interests in telomeres and telomerase, and p53 induced cell senescence.

Other Information
Appointed Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology, University of Wales College of Medicine, from 1.10.96
Appointed Co-ordinator BBSRC’s “Strategic Initiative into Ageing”, May 1998 (for 4 years)
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001
Awarded a personal chair in the Department of Pathology from 1.2.02

Fellow 1993-1996

Research Interests
The physiology and biochemistry of the malaria parasite.

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Staines Medical Research Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford, 1.10.92 to 30.9.95
Sub-Rector at Exeter College, Oxford, 1994/95
Senior Research Fellow in Physiology at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1.10.95 to 31.12.97
Resigned fellowship on 31.5.96 on taking up the Chair of Biology at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, on 1.6.96. Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, from 1.12.96 – 31.5.09
Fellowship continued until 31.12.96
Awarded the Roche Medal of the Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2002
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003
Elected to an Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, 2003
Awarded Australian Society for Parasitology’s Bancroft-Mackerras Medal, 2008
Director ANU Research School of Biology 2009-2014
Dean, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, 2014-2017
Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, 2017
Dean, ANU College of Science, 2017-2024
Dean, ANU College of Science & Medicine, 2025-present
Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 2023

Fellow 2010-2016

Research Interests
Miro family proteins as regulators of synaptic bioenergetics and a locus for mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease

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Extended Fellowship to 31 December 2016
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2016

Fellow 2011-2019

Research Interests
Understanding how CpG islands and chromatin regulate gene expression and development in mammals.

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Elected EMBO Young Investigator 2010
Francis Crick lecture, 2015
Elected to membership of the Institute 2016
Named Chair and Professor of Genetics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 2017
Extended Fellowship to 31.12.19
Elected member of the Institute, 2019
Elected EMBO Member 2021

Fellow 2012-2018

Research Interests
Bacterial interference with the ubiquitin system

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EMBO Young Investigator, 2011-2014
EMBO member since 2014
Extended Fellowship to 31.3.18
Elected a member of the Institute, 2017
Moved to Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia, 2018

Fellow 1995-2000

Research Interests
Mechanisms of oxygen sensing and impact of hypoxia. The role of ion channels, neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in the maturation of oxygen sensing and the effect of hypoxia upon cardiorespiratory disease.

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer, 1.10.96
Appointed Reader from 1.8.97
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001
Deputy Editor in Chief, Journal of Physiology, 2005
Appointed Director of the Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, 2015
Appointed Chair of the Physiological Society’s Publications Committee, 2015
Connections Editor, Experimental Physiology 2015
Physiological Society Otto Hutter Prizewinner 2016
Fellow, Physiological Society 2018