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Neil Burgess is a professor in cognitive computational neuroscience, leading research on the neural mechanisms of memory through a variety of methods. His laboratory utilizes computational modeling, virtual reality, human neuropsychology, functional neuroimaging, and 2-photon microscopy, alongside single unit recordings in freely moving rodents. The main aim of his research is to understand how networks of neurons in the brain facilitate the remembering of events and their spatial locations. Burgess has an extensive background in maths and physics, completing his PhD in theoretical physics at University College London and later holding a research fellowship in Rome, before returning to UCL with a funded Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He has also been supported by the Medical Research Council Senior Fellowship program grant and the Wellcome Trust. From September 2014 to 2019, he served as the Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, and is affiliated with various institutions including the UCL Institute of Neurology and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging. Currently, his research is funded by a Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship.