Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)

Neil Burgess was born on 13 July 1966 in Oakington, Cambridgeshire, to Alan and Lore Burgess (). He was educated at three schools in Cambridge: Newnham Croft Primary School, Parkside Community College, and Hills Road Sixth Form College. Burgess studied mathematics and physics as an undergraduate at University College London, graduating with first-class honours in 1987. where he began working on models of memory with Graham Hitch. Burgess was awarded a PhD in 1990. ==Research and career==

Burgess has developed models to explain how networks of neurons allow us to represent, remember and imagine our location within the surrounding environment. episodic memory and autobiographical memory function (and dysfunction) depend on human brain activity. With Tom Hartley at the University of York and Colin Lever at Durham University he both predicted and discovered neurons representing environmental boundaries. Awards and honours Burgess was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017 having previously held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 1993 to 2001. ==Personal life==

Burgess married Cathryn Jane McDowell in 1997. They have two sons and one daughter. ==References==