简介
Trevor W. Robbins CBE FRS FMedSci PhD
Appointments
I have been a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge from 1997 and a Fellow of Downing College. I was also Professor of Experimental Psychology and Head of the Dept. of Psychology (2002-2017).
I am a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (1990), British Pharmacological Society (2017), Academy of Medical Sciences (2000) as well as the Royal Society (2005). I was made CBE in the New Year’s Honours list. (2012) "for services to medical research".
Research
My research has focused recently on the frontal cortex of the brain and its associated neural systems and their modulation by chemical neurotransmitters. I have sought to understand the functions and underlying mechanisms of the prefrontal cortex in decision-making in humans and other animals. These systems are especially implicated in human psychiatric and many neurological disorders. To aid this research, I co-invented the CANTAB computerized neuropsychological test battery, now used in over 100 countries. I also directed the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2005-2015 (MRC and Wellcome Trust funded), the mission of which was to translate basic to clinical neuroscience. I was a recipient of a Senior Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust (2015-2022).
Publications
I have published about 1000 peer-reviewed articles, (with over 230,000 citations; H index 270, Google Scholar). I have co-edited ten books (including two Discussions of the Royal Society (OUP); The Prefrontal Cortex (1996) and The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction (2009). I edit Psychopharmacology and Current Opinion in the Behavioral Sciences and I am an editorial advisor for Science.
Awards and Prizes
Brain Prize of the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, the most valuable in neuroscience, for work "on human mental disorders" (2014).
also:
Spearman Medal. British Psychological Society (1982)
IPSEN Fondation Neuronal Plasticity Prize (2004)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (American Psychological Association) (2011) (jointly with B.J. Everitt F.R.S.)
Lifetime Achievement Awards: British Association for Psychopharmacology (2015) and the British Psychological Society (2018).
Robert Sommer Award for research into schizophrenia (2016).
Gold Medal of the Society for Biological Psychiatry (USA) (2017)
Goldman-Rakic Award (from the Brain and the Behavior Foundation "for outstanding research in cognitive neuroscience") (2017).
William James Fellow Award of the Association for Psychological Science (2021)
I was ranked by Semantic Scholar as the "4th Most Influential Neuroscientist of the Modern Era" and I obtained the highest research rankings in both Psychology and Neuroscience according to res.com (2022 and 2023).
https://research.com/scientists-rankings/neuroscience/psychology
I hold an Honorary Professorship at Fudan University (Shanghai) in Cognitive Neuroscience (since 2018).
Committees and Societies (selected)
1992-1994 European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (President).
1995-1999 Medical Research Council Board of Neuroscience and Mental Health (Chair, 1995-1999) and MRC Council 1995-1999.
1996-1999 British Association for Psychopharmacology (President).
2007-2010 Royal Society Sectional Committee (8) Chair (2009-2010).
2009-2011 British Neuroscience Association (President).
2010-2012 Royal Society Council.
2015-2016 G7 Science Advisory Committee; UK Advisor, neuroscience theme.
2018-2022 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Council
2017-2018. European Research Council Starting Grants Panel
2018- Advisory Committee on ABCD project, National Institute of Health, USA
2021-2023 Premier Awards Committee, Royal Society.
Consulting
Science advisory for over 20 companies, including GSK, Eli Lilly, Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Pfizer, Roche, Lundbeck, Unilever and Cambridge Cognition.
Policy
Project co-leader on Technology Foresight Programme on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs. Dept. of Trade and Industry (2004-2006).
Co-author of Working Group Report by the Academy of Medical Sciences on Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs, 2008.
Media and Public Engagement
Examples include an Horizon Programme (BBC) on OCD (2014).
Service on a Society for Neuroscience, "Brain Facts" Committee.
University of Cambridge film on OCD research:
"The OCD Brain: How animal research helps us to understand a devastating condition". https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-ocd-brain-how-animal-research-helps-us-understand-a-devastating-condition
Article for "The Conversation." https://theconversation.com/people-with-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-have-an-imbalance-of-brain-chemicals-our-discovery-could-mean-a-treatment-breakthrough-208549.
Keynote Lecture for the "Brainiverse Experience" Symposium, NTU, Singapore (2023).
Interview for The Naked Scientists (2024).
The Richmond Lecture (2023) Downing College, Cambridge.
