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Susan Greenfield read for a first degree at St Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently worked for a DPhil in the University Department of Pharmacology. She subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Physiology, Oxford, the College de France, Paris and NYU Medical Center, New York, until being appointed in 1985 as University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College. Subsequently she has also held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute of Neuroscience, La Jolla, and was the 1996 Visiting Distinguished Scholar, Queens University, Belfast. The title of Professor of Pharmacology was conferred in 1996. In 1997 she was awarded an Honorary DSc by Oxford Brookes University, and received Honorary DSc degrees in 1998 from the University of St Andrew's and Exeter University. In November of this year she is being awarded an Honorary DSc by Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of North London is presenting her with an Honorary Degree in December 1999. She became Director of The Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1998.

Apart from her primary research where she heads a multidisciplinary group studying how diverse neurons prone to degeneration share a common yet non classical feature, Greenfield has developed an interest in the physical basis of the mind. In 1987 she edited "Mindwaves" (B Blackwell) with Colin Blakemore and in 1995 published her own theory of consciousness "Journey to the Centres of the Mind" (WH Freeman). She is currently working on a sequel, to be published by Penguin and Wiley in 2000.

Greenfield also makes contributions to the public understanding of science. In 1994 she was the first woman to be invited to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures and has subsequently made a wide range of broadcasts on TV and radio. She is currently preparing a major six part series on the brain and mind, to be broadcast on BBC2 in the year 2000. In 1995 she was elected to the Gresham Chair of Physic, which entails giving six public lectures a year in the City of London. In Spring this year, she gave a consultative seminar to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at Downing Street.

She was general editor in 1996 for "The Human Mind Explained" (Cassell) and has recently authored "The Human Brain.- A Guided Tour' (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1997) which reached the best seller list. In addition, she writes a column for The Independent on aspects of science, as well as contributions to The Times, The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Sunday Times, and The Telegraph. She was ranked by Harpers and Queen as number fourteen in the "50 Most Inspirational Women in the World'.

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