Biography
Ian Robertson is Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin and was the founding director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, where he leads a large team of researchers studying the links between brain and behaviour and how brain function can be enhanced in age and disease. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Previously a senior scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, where he was also a fellow at Hughes Hall, Ian Robertson continues to be a Visiting Professor at University College London, University of Wales at Bangor and is a Visiting Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto.
A graduate of Glasgow University, he gained his Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of London. His research focuses on the neuropsychology of brain rehabilitation, attention and brain plasticity: he has more than 180 published books and articles in this field. A former science writer for the London Times, his multiply-translated popular science books are Mind Sculpture and the Mind's Eye.
