Dr. David Dupret

Biography

David Dupret completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Institute François Magendie (INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France) and received the French Neuroscience Association's 2007 Ph.D. Year Prize. He joined Prof. Jozsef Csicsvari's group at the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit in September 2007 as a visiting fellow, funded successively by the Foundation Louis D. Research Fellowship and the IBRO Research Fellowship. In 2009, David was appointed as an MRC postdoctoral scientist and later became a Junior Research Fellow in Neuroscience at St Edmund Hall. He was appointed to the MRC Programme Leader Track scientist position in 2011 and promoted to a tenured MRC Programme Leader in 2014. In 2016, David was named a Scholar by the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence and received the Boehringer Ingelheim-FENS 2018 Research Award for his work on the dynamics of neuronal assemblies in memory processes. In 2020, he was awarded the title of Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and serves as a Tutorial Fellow in Biomedical Sciences at St Edmund Hall, in conjunction with the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. His research program investigates the circuit-level mechanisms of memory-guided behaviors, utilizing techniques such as in vivo multichannel recordings and optogenetic manipulation of neuronal ensembles.

Research Interests