Trevor Robbins, BORN 1949
professor of cognitive neuroscience
Trevor William Robbins CBE FRS FMedSci is a Professor of cognitive neuroscience and former Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Robbins has an international reputation in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and psychopharmacology. He is Director of the University of Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. He is a Fellow of Downing College and Past-President of the British Neuroscience Association, the British Association for Psychopharmacology and the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society. He obtained his undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge. He is a keen chess player and represented both England Juniors and the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate. Robbins has published over 750 full papers in scientific journals. The ISI Web of Science credits Robbins as one of the top cited authors in Neuroscience. He has been an editor of the journal Psychopharmacology since 1980, is a Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Science, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Robbins has co-edited 7 books, including Psychology for Medicine, The Neurobiology of Addiction and Decision Making, Effect and Learning.
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Source: This autobiographical life story by Trevor Robbins was archived in 2021, with acknowledgement and thanks, from the website of the Society for Neuroscience at www.sfn.org.