John O'Keefe#
| Membership Number: | 7561 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Principal Investigator, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behavior, UCL
- 2010 - 2016 Director, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behavior, UCL
- 2017 - present Principal Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust
- 1987 - present Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
- 1970 - 1987 Successively Associate Research Fellow, Associate Senior Research Fellow and Reader in Psychobiology, Dept Cell and Dev Biology, UCL
- 1967 - 1970 Honorary Research Assistant, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, University College London, USNIMH post-doctoral fellow with Prof P D Wall
Fields of Scholarship
- Limbic system
- Spatial learning and memory
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Hippocampus
- Navigation
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Neuroethology
- Neurophysiology
- Neuropsychology
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- 1998 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2006 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology
- 2008 Federation of European Neuroscience Society EJN Award
- 2008 Gruber Neuroscience prize
- 2013 Royal Society Ferrier Prize Lecture
- 2013 Horowitz Prize Columbia University
- 2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
- 2014 EMBO Fellowship
- 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2014 Hon Doctorate University College Cork
- 2014 Foreign Fellow Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2014 Hon Fellow of the Physiological Society
- 2015 Hon Doctorate City University of NY
- 2015 Hon Doctorate McGill University
- 2015 Hon Doctorate Aix Marseille University
- 2016 Member of the National Academy of Science USA
- 2017 Hon Doctorate University of York
- 2019 Hon Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- American Psychological Association
- 2020 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
