11 Facts About Jonathan Ashmore

Jonathan Felix Ashmore was born on 1948 and is a British physicist and Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London.

Aged seven, Jonathan Ashmore played Joe in the 1955 film A Kid for Two Farthings, adapted from the novel by Wolf Mankowitz.

Jonathan Ashmore was appointed a Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Bristol in 1983 and promoted to Reader in 1988, before moving back to UCL in 1993.

Jonathan Ashmore has worked on dissecting the cellular mechanisms of hearing by studying the organ of Corti in the mammalian cochlea especially the guinea pig.

Jonathan Ashmore showed that specialised cells known as outer hair cells are responsible for this unique function.

Jonathan Ashmore's findings are helping to unravel the nature and origins of hearing-related conditions like deafness and tinnitus.

Jonathan Ashmore's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council and he has supervised several doctoral students to completion including Dan Jagger.

Jonathan Ashmore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and gave their Croonian Lecture in 2017 on the neuroscience of deafness.

Jonathan Ashmore is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and a member of both the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and The Biophysical Society.

Jonathan Ashmore is Faculty of 1000 section head for Sensory Systems and a trustee for the Hearing Research Trust.

Jonathan Ashmore served as president of The Physiological Society from 2012 to 2014.