Education
Driver received his Bachelor/Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology in 1984 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology in 1988 from the Queen"s College, Oxford.
Driver received his Bachelor/Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology in 1984 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology in 1988 from the Queen"s College, Oxford.
At the time of his death, Driver was Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (University College London). From 2009 Driver held a Royal Society Anniversary Professorship, which allowed him to concentrate on research. He was formerly Director of the University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, an interdisciplinary research centre that studies mental processes in the human brain.
He was a principal investigator at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. Driver"s research focused on perception, selective attention and multisensory integration (interplay between our different senses) in the normal and damaged human brain.
He used a combination of psychophysical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society methods, including most recently a combined brain stimulation and brain imaging approach (concurrent the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society -fMRI). His research had been funded by the Medical Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Biology and Biotechnology Council, the Economic and Social Council, the McDonnell Foundation, and The Stroke Association.
Driver authored over 200 scientific publications.
Academia Europaea]
In 2005 Driver was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2006 as a member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe. And in 2008 as a Fellow of the British Academy.