Daniel M. Wolpert

Early life and education Wolpert was educated at the Hall School and Westminster School. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in medical sciences in 1985, then completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BCh) in 1988, and PhD in physiology in 1992 from the University of Oxford.

Career Wolpert pursued computational neuroscience as postdoctoral researcher (1992–1994) and McDonnell-Pew Fellow (1994–1995) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Daniel Wolpert on his qualification as medical doctor worked as Medical House officer in Oxford, in 1988. After completion of his research in 1995, he joined the faculty of Sobell Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London, as a Lecturer. He became Reader in Motor Neuroscience in 1999, and full Professor in 2002. He was appointed to Professor of Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, in 2005. In 2013, he also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology. Other awards include:

1982–1985 Thomas Cannon Brooke's Scholarship for Mathematics, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1989–1992 Senior Scholarship, Lincoln College, Oxford 1992–1995 Fulbright Scholarship 2004 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) 2005 Swartz foundation Mind-Brain Lecture, Stony Brook University 2005 Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture 2005 Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 2007 Alice and Joseph Brooks International Lecture, Harvard University 2007 Annual Cognitive Science Lecture, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 2009 Fred Kavli Distinguished International Scientist Lecture, Society for Neuroscience 2010 Golden Brain Award of the Minerva Foundation 2012 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 2012 Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (for seven years) 2013 Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology 2021 Royal Society Ferrier Medal and Lecture

Personal life Wolpert is the son of South-African born developmental and evolutionary biologist Lewis Wolpert, and his wife Elizabeth (née Brownstein).

Since 1990, Wolpert has been married to Mary Anne Shorrock; they have two daughters.