Barry John Everitt Federal Reserve System, FMedSci was Master of Downing College, Cambridge and is Professor of behavioral neuroscience and Director of at the University of Cambridge.
Education
Everitt graduated in zoology and psychology at the University of Hull and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Birmingham on behavioural neuroendocrinology. He undertook post-doctoral research at Birmingham and then at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, with the neuroanatomists Tomas Hökfelt and Kjell Fuxe.
Career
He is Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust at Cambridge University. Everitt"s research has spanned many aspects of brain function, from neuroanatomy to neuroendocrinology and behavioural neuroscience. He is an acknowledged international authority on the neural systems underlying learning, memory and motivation especially in relation to drug addiction and in the top 1% most cited researchers in behavioural neuroscience.
Everitt was appointed to the Department of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge in 1974, became a Fellow of Downing College in 1976 and was Director of Studies from 1979-1999.
He moved to the Department of Experimental Psychology as a Reader in 1994 and was elected Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience in 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Royal Society]
He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation, and received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from his almae matres, Birmingham University and Hull University.
Fellow of the Royal Society
the Fondation Ipsen Neuronal Plasticity Prize; Scientific Contribution Award; Distinguished Achievement Award; Lifetime Achievement Award