Raymond Joseph Dolan

For the American engineer, see Raymond Paul Dolan.

Raymond Joseph Dolan (born 21 January 1954)^[2] is an Irish neuroscientist and the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at University College London, where he was also the founding director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.^[3][4]

Raymond Dolan
Born	(1954-01-21) 21 January 1954 (age 71) Galway, Ireland[1]
Alma mater	National University of Ireland
Known for	Neuroimaging research
Awards	2006 Golden Brain Award 2017 Brain Prize (with Peter Dayan and Wolfram Schultz) 2019 Ferrier Medal and Lecture
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience Neuropsychiatry
Institutions	University College London

Honours and awards

In 2006 he was awarded the Golden Brain Award by the Minerva Foundation. In 2015 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was one of three recipients of the 2017 Brain Prize, along with Peter Dayan and Wolfram Schultz.^[5]

He is a fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Association for Psychological Science.^[6] In 2016, he was ranked by Semantic Scholar as the second-most influential neuroscientist in the modern world, behind only his UCL colleague Karl Friston.^[7]

In 2019 he was awarded the Ferrier Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society.^[8]