Professor Dolan is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of neuroscience and behaviour. Using neuroimaging with behavioural studies he identifies the areas and chemicals in the brain involved in thinking, learning and decision making.
He has published over 750 scientific papers and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010. He is also a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and an External Member of the Max Planck Society.
A native of Galway and graduate of University of Galway, he has spent his career in London where he is now Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at UCL and Director of UCL-Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing. He was the founding Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging.
Among his many awards he has won the 2006 Golden Brain Award from the Minerva Foundation and the International Max Planck Research Award and the Ferrier Medal from the Royal Society. He is a Visiting Einstein Fellow of the Humboldt University of Berlin
