Richard Frackowiak

Richard Stanislaus Joseph Frackowiak (born March 26, 1950 in London ) is a British neurologist and neuroscientist at the Center hospitalier universitaire vaudois at the University of Lausanne .

Frackowiak attended school in London and studied medicine at Cambridge University . In 1983 he earned his doctorate in medicine with a thesis on the quantitative measurement of cerebral blood flow using positron emission tomography (PET) . From 1988 to 1993, Frackowiak headed the neurological department at Hammersmith Hospital . In 1990 he received a professorship in neurology and in 1994 took over the management of the neuroscience imaging department at University College London (UCL). In 1998 he became director of the Department of Neurology at UCL, and from 2002 he was deputy provost of that college. From 2005 he was also head of the Département des sciences cognitives (DEC) at the École normal supérieure in Paris . In 2009, Frackowiak moved to the Center hospitalier universitaire vaudois at the University of Lausanne as professor and chief physician in neurology . In 2013 he also received a professorship at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and has also been co-director of medicine at the Human Brain Project (HBP) located there since 2013 . In 2015 Frackowiak retired, but continues to do research at the University of Lausanne.

Frackowiak initially dealt with the investigation of pathophysiological changes in various neurological diseases. His work laid important foundations for the clinical application of positron emission tomography (PET). In the early 1990s he turned to studies on the representation of brain functions, and his working group took a leading position worldwide in the field of functional brain localization - in particular through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which produces structural and functional images with high levels of radiation without exposure to radiation spatial resolution generated. The automated process of image generation and analysis could be standardized in such a way that functional brain maps could be created ( voxel-based morphometry ). The dynamic plasticity of the brain in function and structure could be demonstrated - both in normal brains and in those of patients with neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Further studies showed the brain's ability to reorganize itself through practice and learning after injury .

His staff included Terence Jones and his postdoc Christian Büchel . Frackowiak initiated the Human Brain Project, funded by the European Commission , together with the neuroscientist Henry Markram and the physicist Karlheinz Meier . He is one of the coordinators of the Faculty of 1000 in the field of neurological disorders. As of July 2019, Richard Frackowiak has an h-index of 202.

Frackowiak is married and has three children.

Awards (selection)

• 1995 member of the Academia Europaea
• 1997 Neuronal Plasticity Prize (with Antonio Damasio and Michael Merzenich ) for brain mapping and its plasticity
• 1997 Prize from the Feldberg Foundation
• 1999 honorary doctorate from the University of Liège
• 2000 honorary member of the American Neurological Association
• 2003 Ig Nobel Prize "for the proof that the brains of London taxi drivers are better developed than those of their roommates"
• 2004 Zülch Prize for "imaging measurement methods to investigate the functional architecture of the human brain"
• 2013 member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Web links

• Richard Frackowiak, Professor at the University of Lausanne (unil.ch)
• CV at Academia Europaea (ae-info.org)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Richard Frackowiak. In: ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
2. ^ Richard Frackowiak: Head of Faculty in Neurological Disorders. In: f1000.com. March 10, 2003, accessed October 31, 2017 . 
3. ^ Richard Frackowiak - Google Scholar Citations. In: scholar.google.com. Retrieved July 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Ilire Hasani, Robert Hoffmann: Academy of Europe: Frackowiak Richard. In: ae-info.org. April 13, 2016, accessed October 31, 2017 . 
5. ^ Neurosciences. (No longer available online.) In: fondation-ipsen.org. April 22, 2016, archived from the original on July 21, 2017 ; accessed on October 31, 2017 (English). 
6. ↑ Prize Winners of the Feldberg Foundation. In: feldbergfoundation.org. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Improbable Research. In: improbable.com. September 14, 2017, accessed October 31, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Zülch price. In: mpg.de. Retrieved October 31, 2017 . 
9. ^ Foreign Members - Division V: Medical Sciences. In: institution.pan.pl. Retrieved October 31, 2017 .