Andrew King (neurophysiologist)

For other people named Andrew King, see Andrew King (disambiguation).

Andrew King
FRS FMedSci
King in 2018
Born
Andrew John King

(1959-04-08) 8 April 1959 (age 65)[2]
Greenford, Middlesex
EducationNortholt High School[2]
Alma materKing's College London
University of London
AwardsWellcome Prize Medal in Physiology[1]
Scientific career
FieldsNeurophysiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
National Institute for Medical Research
ThesisThe representation of visual and auditory space in the guinea-pig superior colliculus (1984)
Websitewww.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/research-directory/andrew-king

Andrew John King (born 8 April 1959)[2] is a British neurophysiologist who is a Professor of Neurophysiology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford[3][4] and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.[5]

Education

King was educated at Northolt High School[2] and graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree[when?] and was a PhD student at the National Institute for Medical Research[2] where his doctoral research investigated the representation of visual and auditory space in the superior colliculus of guinea pigs. His was awarded a PhD in 1984 by the University of London.[6]

Career and research

King discovered that the mammalian brain contains a spatial map of the auditory world and showed that its development is shaped by sensory experience.[1] His work has also demonstrated that the adult brain represents sound features in a remarkably flexible way, continually adjusting to variations in the statistical distribution of sounds associated with different acoustic environments as well to longer term changes in input resulting from hearing loss.[1] In addition to furthering our understanding of the neural basis for auditory perception, his research is helping to inform better treatment strategies for the hearing impaired.[1]

Awards and honours

King was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[7][1][8] He is also a Fellow of The Physiological Society.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society". Royal Society. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e Anon (2017). "King, Prof. Andrew John". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.255766. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Professor Andrew King". University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  4. ^ Andrew King publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ a b "Professor Andrew John King". merton.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  6. ^ King, Andrew John (1984). The representation of visual and auditory space in the guinea-pig superior colliculus. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 728450367. Copac 23219292.
  7. ^ Anon (2015). "Royal Society Elections". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015.
  8. ^ Anon (2018). "Professor Andrew King FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 14 May 2018. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Terms, conditions and policies | Royal Society". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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