Michael Land#
Membership Number: | 1881 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Section: | ORGANISMIC & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1998 |

Present and Previous Positions
- since 2005 Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology University of Sussex
- 1984-2005 Professor of Neurobiology University of Sussex
- 1982-1984 Senior Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1977 Appointed Reader, University of Sussex
- 1971-1977 Lecturer in Neuroniology, University of Sussex
- 1969-1971 Asstistant Professor of Physiology, UC Berkeley
- 1967-1969 Miller Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
- 1966-1967 Assistant Lecturer in Physiology, University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurobiology
- Animal and human vision (optics of the eyes and visual control of behaviour)
- Human eye movements
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 1994 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London
- 1996 ALCON Prize for vision research
- 1998 Rank Prize Funds award for vision research
- 1998 Member of the Academia Europaea