Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki ( born 1940 ) is a British neurobiologist with research interests in visual system, visual perception by the brain, as well as the neurobiological basis for art and aesthetics.
Zeki studied medicine at University College London and a PhD in anatomy. As a post - graduate student, he was in Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin, where he worked on the functional organization of visual perception in the brain of primates. 1975 to 1980 he was Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society. Since 1981 he is Professor of Brain Research ( Neurobiology ) at University College London
In addition to the neurobiology of visual perception, he is also interested in interrelations with the visual arts.
Zeki is a member of the Royal Society and is a corresponding member of the American Philosophical Society, member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society out. In 2004 he received the King Faisal Prize, 2008, the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea.