Richard Frackowiak
Prof. Richard Frackowiak is Professor and head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Université de Lausanne (UNIL) and its Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV).
Formerly he served as Foundation Professor of Cognitive Neurology at University College London (UCL), Director of the Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC) at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, Wellcome Trust Principal Clinical Research Fellow and Vice-Provost of UCL after a period as Dean-Director of its Institute of Neurology. He founded the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience and its Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) in 1994.
Frackowiak has an MA and MD from Cambridge (Peterhouse), a DSc from London University, an honorary medical doctorate from Liege University and an honorary professorship from UCL.
A Fellow of the Academies of Medical Sciences of the UK, France and Belgium, he is a member
of the Academia Europaea and a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine of the American Academies. He is past president of the British Neuroscience Association and of the European Brain and Behaviour Society.
He serves as scientific advisor to the Director-General of INSERM.
He has held prestigious visiting professorships, a chaire d’excellence (senior) from the Agence Nationale de Recherche in France, editorships and international society roles worldwide. He participated in the evaluation of the Instituts Hospitaliers Universitaires programme of the French “Grand Emprunt” as jury chair.
His interest is in human brain structure and function relationships in health and disease. His scientific output of 335 papers and “Human Brain Function” are highly cited with an h-index is 137 and over 100 citations per output. He has won the Ipsen, Wilhelm Feldberg and Klaus Joachim Zulch prizes.
Richard Frąckowiak is, among others, the co-author of the books Human Brain Function (2nd ed. 2003)[13] and Brain Mapping: The Disorders[14]. He is also the author or co-author of over 400 scientific articles in prestigious specialist journals; he is one of the most frequently cited authors in the world[11][7] (approx. 6,500 citations per year[15], in 1990 – fourth place in Great Britain.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON APPOINTMENTS
- Emeritus ProfessorUniversity College London, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Professor & head of department CHUV, University of Lausanne, Clinical neurosciences, United Kingdom1 Feb 2009 – 1 Jan 2100
- Honorary Professor IoN, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, United Kingdom1 Jan 2009 – 1 Jan 2100
- Vice Provost
UCL, United Kingdom1 Aug 2002 – 31 Jan 2009 - Dean – Director
UCL, IoN, United Kingdom1 Aug 1998 – 1 Aug 2002 - Professor of Cognitive Neurology IoN, UCL, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, United Kingdom1 Sep 1994 – 31 Jan 2009
- NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Co-director Human Brain Project
EPFL1 Sep 2013 – 1 Apr 2015 - Medecin associé bénévole
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois1 Sep 2015 – present
DEGREES
- MA, MB, BChir, MD
Cambridge University, United Kingdom - Doc
University of London, United Kingdom - MD honoris causa
University of Liege, Belgium1999 – present
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Specialisation in clinical neurology
General Medical Council & Swiss FMH, United Kingdom & Switzerland
LANGUAGES
- English, French, Polish
Prof. Richard Frackowiak is Professor and head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Université de Lausanne (UNIL) and its Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV).
University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
phone; +44 (0) 20 7679 2000
e-mail: r.frackowiak@ucl.ac.uk
e-mail: richard.frackowiak@gmail.com
E-mail: richard.frackowiak@epfl.ch