Geraint Rees is a Director of UCL Business, a trustee of the Alan Turing Institute, a trustee of the Francis Crick Institute and a trustee of the Guarantors of Brain.
16 Facts About Geraint Rees
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Geraint Rees held a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship from 2003 to 2018.
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Geraint Rees was born in 1967 in Cambridge and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield and Bradford Grammar School.
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Geraint Rees moved to the University of Oxford where he received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1991 where he was a student of New College, Oxford.
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Geraint Rees completed his PhD under the supervision of Chris Frith at University College London's Functional Imaging Laboratory in 1999.
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Geraint Rees's work has been internationally recognised with the award in 2003 of the Young Investigator Medal of The Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
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Previous work by Geraint Rees has suggested that subjective awareness of objects in the visual environment is associated not just with enhanced activation in visual areas of the occipital lobe, but areas of parietal and prefrontal cortex often associated with attention.
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Geraint Rees co-edited a large reference book entitled the Neurobiology of Attention with Laurent Itti and John Tsotsos, and is the author of numerous articles and invited reviews on the functional imaging of consciousness.
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Geraint Rees was a member of the board of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness until stepping down in 2007, and with Patrick Wilken organised its tenth annual meeting that was held at St Anne's College, Oxford in June 2006.
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In 2011, Geraint Rees co-authored a neuroscience paper, Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults together with among others actor Colin Firth, who had suggested on BBC Radio 4 that such a paper could be written.
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Geraint Rees is currently Director of the UCL SLMS Academic Careers Office which delivers strategy and support to academics and clinical academics at UCL.
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Geraint Rees directs a Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme and a large MRC Doctoral Training Programme associated with the ACO.
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Geraint Rees served on the 'Walport' committee of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration developing Academic Clinical Fellow and Clinical Lecturer schemes, and leads the local ACF and CL schemes at University College London.
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Geraint Rees was course director for over a decade for the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians Part 1 courses in London run by Pastest.
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Geraint Rees is a Non-Executive Director of UCL Business PLC, the technology transfer company associated with UCL.
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Geraint Rees was a Director of Imanova Limited, a molecular imaging company until August 2017 when it was acquired by Invicro.