Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and co-director of the Wellcome Trust Doctor of Philosophy Programme in Neuroscience at University College London.
Background
Blakemore was born on 11 August 1974 to Colin Blakemore and Andrée Blakemore (née Washbourne), and educated at Oxford High School and Street John's College, Oxford where she graduated with a Bachelor degree in Experimental psychology in 1996.
Education
Bachelor in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, England, 1996. Doctor of Philosophy in Neurosci., University College London, 2000.
Career
She went on to study at University College London where she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 2000 for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith. Blakemore"s research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence. Blakemore was a scientific consultant on the television documentary The Human Mind in 2003.
Blakemore is a Royal Society University Fellow.
In March 2015 Blakemore was the guest on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s The Life Scientific.
Membership
She is a member of Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and the Royal Society Vision Committee for Maths and Science Education 5-19.