About this Event
The Ferrier Medal and Lecture 2027 is awarded to Professor Kenneth Daniel Harris for his revolutionary contributions to neuroscience by unifying experimental neurophysiology with advanced analytical methods, and for pioneering the technologies and computational methods that allow recording from thousands of neurons.
Professor Kenneth Daniel Harris is a neuroscientist at University College London, where he co-directs a laboratory with Matteo Carandini. Harris initially trained in mathematics, completing a BA and Part III at the University of Cambridge, before earning a PhD in robotics and neural computation at UCL. He then moved to the United States for postdoctoral research with György Buzsáki at Rutgers University, analysing the rapidly growing datasets produced by large-scale neuronal recordings. After leading research groups at Rutgers and Imperial College London, he returned to UCL in 2012.
He is a strong advocate of open science, having released widely used open-source tools and contributed to major collaborations, including the Neuropixels Consortium and the International Brain Laboratory. His current work focuses on applying AI reasoning to make sense of ever-increasing quantities of brain recording data.
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Attending in person
- This lecture can be attended in-person at the Royal Society
- Doors will open to the public at 6.00pm GMT
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- The lecture will also be livestreamed here and on the Royal Society YouTube channel
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The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom
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