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Edmund
T. Rolls is a member of the University of Oxford, where he served as
Professor of Experimental Psychology, and Fellow and Tutor in
Psychology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1973-2008; Vice President
of Corpus Christi College 2003-2006).
Edmund Rolls is at the Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience,
Oxford; and also at the Department of Computer Science, University of
Warwick, UK, where he is a Professor in Computational Neuroscience. Edmund Rolls is also a
Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Science and
Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence at Fudan University,
Shanghai.
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Biography
Discoveries
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Edmund
Rolls read pre-clinical medicine at the University of Cambridge, and
was awarded the degree of M.A. in Natural Sciences with exemption from
the 2nd M.B (preclinical medicine).
He trained in neuroscience research at the University of
Oxford and was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in
Experimental Psychology / Neuroscience).
Edmund Rolls was a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford (1969-1973).
He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science of the University of
Oxford in 1986; and an Honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the
Medical University of Toyama, Japan in 2005.
Edmund T. Rolls is a neuroscientist with research interests in
computational neuroscience, including the operation of real neuronal
networks in the brain involved in vision, memory, attention, and
decision-making; functional neuroimaging of vision, taste, olfaction,
feeding, the control of appetite, memory, and emotion; neurological
disorders of emotion; psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and
depression; and the brain processes underlying consciousness. These
studies include investigations in patients, and are performed with the
aim of contributing to understanding the human brain in health and
disease, and of treating its disorders. He has published more than 688
full length research papers on these topics, which are shown, with many
.pdfs available including some of his books, at https://www.oxcns.org. Edmund Rolls has also published 16 books on neuroscience.
Edmund Rolls was Associate Director of the Medical
Research Council Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Cognitive
Neuroscience at the University of Oxford for its full period of
1990-2003; and founding member of the Board of the Oxford McDonnell
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience for 1990-2008.
He has led two Human Frontier Science Program
grants, and several European Union grants. He has also held Wellcome
Trust Grants, and Medical Research Council Programme Grants for many
consecutive periods.
Edmund Rolls has also served as a member of the Council, and the
Secretary of the Council, of the European Neuroscience Association;
Secretary of the European Brain and Behaviour Society;
and a member of the Fellowships Committee of the Human Frontier Science Program.
Citations and impact. Edmund
Rolls was ranked in 2019 as the 18th most cited scientist in the UK,
and the 150th most cited scientist in the world out of 6,880,389 in any
field of science who have published more than 5 papers across every
scientific field (i.e. in the top 0.002%) (composite indicator c,
Ioannidis et al 2019 A standardized citation metrics author database
annotated for scientific field. PLoS Biol 17(8): e3000384). Edmund
Rolls is also the 20th most cited neuroscientist in the world, and 3rd
in the UK (composite indicator c for Neurology and Neurosurgery,
Ioannidis et al 2019).
In 2021, Edmund Rolls was ranked by Research.com as the top 20th neuroscientist in the world, and 6th in the UK, based on citations.
Edmund Rolls' research has been cited more than 117,000 times, with h-index=179, and i10 index=591 (GS).
In 2024, Edmund Rolls was ranked by Scholar GPS
(https://scholargps.com/) as the 5th most highly ranked neuroscientist
ever and first ranked computational neuroscientist in terms of
publication record, high impact, and the outstanding quality of his
scholarly contributions. Edmund Rolls was ranked 11 across every field
of science and medicine ever in the UK, and 22 across the Life Sciences
across the whole world, ever.
Edmund Rolls’ 16th book Brain Computations and Connectivity (Oxford University Press, 2023) is Open Access and is available for free download at https://www.oxcns.org.
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