Name:
Professor Trevor Robbins FRS FBPhS
Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Year elected:
2017
Primary professional setting:
Trevor Robbins is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is also Director of the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, the mission of which is to inter-relate basic and clinical research in psychiatry and neurology.Trevor is one of the most cited neuroscientists in the World (H index=175), with over 800 full papers and has co-edited eight books (including, most recently, Translational Neuropsychopharmacology (2017)). He has edited the journal Psychopharmacology since 1980. He was elected FRS in 2005 and made a CBE "for services to medicine" in 2012. Among several awards, he shared the valuable Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize in 2014 and has recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (2015) as well as the Gold Medal of the US Society of Biological Psychiatry (2017), and the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Award for Cognitive Neuroscience (2017).