27/05/2026
Congratulations to Professor Tom Mrsic-Flogel, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL, who has been elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society for his pioneering work in neuroscience.
“I am honoured to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. Making discoveries in neuroscience is a big challenge and requires a team effort, and so this honour is shared with all my lab members and collaborators. Now more than ever, the Royal Society has a vital role, as a collective voice for championing science and injecting reason into the public discourse. I look forward to contributing to this endeavour.”- Professor Tom Mrsic-Flogel FRS, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL.
Professor Tom Mrsic-Flogel became Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in 2016, leading the Centre’s mission to understand how the brain drives behaviour. His work addresses a fundamental question: how does the brain combine sensory information with prior experience to perceive the world and guide adaptive behaviour? His research revealed that the structure of the sensory world is reflected in the specificity of synaptic connections between cortical neurons, establishing key principles of the circuit architecture that supports perception and inference. More recently, he has used large-scale approaches for recording and perturbing neural activity to study how computations within and across brain regions contribute to decision-making, working memory and flexible behaviour, working toward a mechanistic understanding of cognition at the whole-brain level.
Read more: https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/research-news/director-sainsbury-wellcome-centre-elected-fellow-royal-society
