Submitted by la334 on Wed, 28/05/2025 - 10:01
Professor Ed Bullmore has been announced as a new Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. It fulfils a number of roles, including the promotion of science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, providing scientific advice for policy, education and public engagement, and fostering international and global cooperation.
Former Head of the Department and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge since 1999, Professor Bullmore is one of 90 outstanding researchers to be newly elected to the Society’s Fellowship.
His scientific work has primarily focused on developing new computational tools for analysing the complex network organisation of the human brain. This has had an enormous impact on the fields of psychiatry and neuroscience, especially in understanding the biological basis of schizophrenia and other major mental health disorders that arise from atypical development of brain networks.
Professor Bullmore has also been an Honorary Fellow of Downing College since 2023. Earlier this year, he was appointed Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London, a historically significant role created by royal charter and approved by the monarch.
He said: “I am thrilled to be elected FRS this year, especially since this recognises the work that I have done in Cambridge over the last 25 years, much of it in collaboration with Professor Trevor Robbins FRS and other Fellows of Downing College.”