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.

Other Information
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