Peter W Halligan

Degress in psychology, philosophy, education and neuroscience from University College Dublin and Oxford Brookes followed by 14 years at Oxford University working at the Departments of Clinical Neurology and Experimental Psychology.

At Oxford awarded an E.P. Abraham Junior Research Fellow at Green College and in 1993 the British Psychological Society’s Spearman Medal. In 1997, awarded an MRC Senior Research Fellowship. In 2005 awarded the BPS Presidents’ Award for outstanding contributions to psychology and in 2006 the Special Merit Award for Outstanding Contribution by the Psychological Society of Ireland.

Since joining Cardiff University as a Research Professorial Fellow, played a central role in establishing Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN), the UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, the Cardiff Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series, School of Psychology MindArt project, Haydn Ellis Distinguished Lecture Series and the Cardiff University Research Institutes.

A Fellow of the British and Irish Psychological Societies and Academy of Medical Sciences, he is co-editor of the international journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and has published over 200 articles [with a current H-index of 50 (Web of Science)] including papers in Nature, Lancet, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6 neuropsychological tests and 10 edited books.

His work has been reported widely in the national and international media (including New York Times,Economist, New Scientist, Guardian, Western Mail ,BBC,Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC Radio 4)