Mark Lythgoe (born 17 December 1962) is a British neurophysiologist, and the founder and director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI) at

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(UCL), where he is professor of biomedical imaging.

Early life

He attended St Augustine's Catholic Grammar School in

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(became St John Plessington High School in 1977 then

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in 1984). Lythgoe earned a master's degree in Behavioural Sciences from the

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in 1993, followed by a PhD in biophysics from

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Career

Lythgoe has authored more than 200 papers, in journals including Nature and The Lancet. In 2015, Lythgoe was director of the

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, and was awarded the Neuroscience Prize for Public Understanding from the

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, "as someone epitomising the best of public engagement". He has an

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of 52.

References

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