New Royal Society Fellows announced
15 May 09
Three researchers from the University of Oxford have been elected as new Fellows of the Royal Society, it was announced today. The new Fellows are Professor Nicholas Harberd, Professor Angela McLean and Professor Richard Passingham.
Professor Nicholas Paul Harberd is Oxford’s Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences. His research focuses on the comparative biology of the mechanisms regulating land-plant growth and development. His research group, which joined the Department of Plant Sciences in 2007, carries out research into the genetic regulation of plant growth. He is the author of the popular science book Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants.
Professor Angela McLean is Professor of Mathematical Biology at Oxford University’s Department of Zoology. She is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Co-Director of the Institute of Emerging Infections. Her research focuses on the use of mathematical models to aid understanding of the evolution and spread of infectious agents, including work on HIV, HCV, Influenza, and Scrapie. She is a member of the Science Advisory Council of Defra, of the National Expert Panel for New and Emerging Infections at the Department of Health and the European Academies Science Advisory Council working group on Migration and Infectious Disease.
Professor Richard Edward Passingham is Professor of
Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Experimental Psychology and
a fellow of Wadham College. He is Honorary Principal of the Wellcome
Centre for NeuroImaging in London. His main research interests are in
the brain mechanisms that underlie consciousness and mechanisms for the
attentional control of cognitive performance. Recent studies have
concentrated in particular on how the instructions given to subjects
influence the brain areas that are involved in task performance.