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Daniel Mark WolpertFRS FMedSci (born 8 September ) is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology.

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He was Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from , and also became the Royal SocietyNoreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from He is now Professor of Neurobiology at Columbia University.

Early life and education

Wolpert was educated at the Hall School and Westminster School.

He went on to the University of Cambridge to study mathematics, but after only a year he shifted to medicine, as it seemed to him "that medics were having much more fun than mathematicians." He completed a Bachelor of Arts in medical sciences in , then completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BCh) in , and PhD in physiology in from the University of Oxford.

Career

Wolpert pursued computational neuroscience as postdoctoral researcher (–) and McDonnell-Pew Fellow (–) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Daniel Wolpert on his qualification as medical doctor worked as Medical House officer in Oxford, in After completion of his research in , he joined the faculty of Sobell Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London, as a Lecturer. He became Reader in Motor Neuroscience in , and full Professor in He was appointed to Professor of Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in In , he also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology.

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In , he moved to Columbia University to become Professor of Neurobiology.

Awards and honours

Wolpert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in , his nomination reads

Daniel Wolpert is a world leader in the computational study of sensorimotor control and learning, transforming our understanding of how the brain controls movement.

Combining theoretical and behavioural work, he has placed the field of sensorimotor control firmly within the probabilistic domain and shown how neural noise plays a pivotal role in determining both how we process information during action and how we generate actions. His empirical discoveries and theoretical work on internal models have shown how ubiquitous they are for a range of core processes from motor learning, through sensory processing to social cognition; and how disorders of internal models can lead to neuropsychological disorders.

Other awards include:

  • – Thomas Cannon Brooke's Scholarship for Mathematics, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
  • – Senior Scholarship, Lincoln College, Oxford
  • – Fulbright Scholarship
  • Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
  • Swartz foundation Mind-Brain Lecture, Stony Brook University
  • Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture
  • Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Alice and Joseph Brooks International Lecture, Harvard University
  • Annual Cognitive Science Lecture, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fred Kavli Distinguished International Scientist Lecture, Society for Neuroscience
  • Golden Brain Award of the Minerva Foundation
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
  • Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (for seven years)
  • Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology
  • Royal Society Ferrier Medal and Lecture

Personal life

Wolpert is the son of South-African born developmental and evolutionary biologistLewis Wolpert, and his wife Elizabeth (née Brownstein).

Since , Wolpert has been married to Mary Anne Shorrock; they have two daughters.