Andrew J. King

Andrew King is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College. He is also the current Director of Oxford’s Wellcome Trust four year PhD studentship programme in neuroscience. He studied physiology at King’s College London and carried out his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research. He then moved to Oxford, where he initially held a Science and Engineering Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, followed by a Lister Institute Research Fellowship, and then a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship, which was renewed twice. He was awarded the Wellcome Prize in Physiology in 1990 and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011. His research combines behavioural, physiological and anatomical methods to investigate the neural basis of auditory perception and multisensory integration. He is particularly interested in the plasticity of information processing at higher levels of the auditory system, induced as a result of learning or by hearing loss.