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Speaker: Dr. George Paxinos
Scientia Professor AO DSc FASSA FAA (Dist)FRSN FAHMS
NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia
Where: 6th level AUD

Organized by: The Psychology and the Biomedical Sciences Societies
Department of Psychology and Department of Science and Mathematics, Deree-ACG

Prof. George Paxinos, “the neuroscientist who mapped the brain,” is a Greek Australian neuroscientist born in Ithaca, Greece. He completed his BA in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

After a postdoctoral year at Yale University, he moved to the School of Psychology of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is currently a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and a Scientia Professor of Medical Sciences at the University of New South Wales.

Prof. Paxinos is a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens and the only Australian with this award.

Although known for his impact on neuroscience, Prof. Paxinos has a history of campaigning for the environment. For over 10 years, Prof. Paxinos was the leading proponent of light rail for the city of Sydney. His motivation had been to reduce atmospheric pollution from automobile use. In 2021, he published a book: A River Divided, a novel in the environmental genre, where neuroscience principles and environmental issues are at the center, including the question of whether the brain is the right “size” for survival. A River Divided was published this year in Greek under the title 'Ο Αμαζόνιος ανάμεσα μας'.

We had the pleasure and honour of having him with us.