- Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham - June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known as an early advocate of utilitarianism and animal rights who influenced the development of liberalism. Bentham was one of the most influential utilitarians, partially through his writings but particularly through his students all around the world.
- Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Gideon Marmot (born 26 January 1945, London, England) is professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. Michael Marmot moved to Australia as a young child and graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He earned a MPH in 1972 and PhD in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born March 24, 1944) is a professor of genetics at Galton laboratory of University College London. He is also a television presenter and a prize-winning author on the subject of biology, especially evolution. He is one of the best known contemporary popular writers on evolution. His popular writing shows a wry, sometimes rather dark, sense of humour. In 1996 his writing won him the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize ``for his numerous, …
- Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands is a Professor of Law at University College London, where he teaches public international law, the settlement of international disputes, and environmental and natural resources law.
- Malcolm Grant
Malcolm Grant (1947-), CBE, is the Provost and President of University College London, a role equivalent to Vice-Chancellor at other United Kingdom universities. He took up the post – the principal academic and administrative officer and head of UCL – on 1 August 2003. Professor Grant has been controversially responsible for UCL's attempt to redefine its image as one of the world's leading universities.
- David Pearce
:"This article is about Professor David Pearce, UK economist. For other people with this name, see David Pearce." Professor David Pearce OBE was an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics in the University College London. He specialised in, and was a pioneer of, Environmental Economics, having published over fifty books and over 300 academic articles on the subject including his 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' series.
- John Adams
Professor John Adams of University College London, is a professor of geography and leading theorist on risk compensation and an environmentalist. His book "Risk" is an analysis of how humans assess and respond to perceived risks. Adams spoke at the "Shared Space" conference held in Ipswich, UK in June, 2005, …
- Bill McGuire
Professor Bill McGuire, is a professor of Volcanology at University College London and is widely accepted as one of Britain's leading volcanologists. His main interests include monitoring volcanoes and global geophysical events. One of McGuire's main research points is the Yellowstone National Park supervolcano in Wyoming. McGuire has appeared on many TV shows including "Horizon", one of the BBCs most popular and successful "Science & Nature" programmes, …
- Peter Hall
Sir Peter Hall is the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and President of the Town and Country Planning Association. He is an internationally renowned authority on the economic, demographic, cultural and management issues that face cities around the globe. Sir Peter has also been for many years a key planning and regeneration adviser to successive governments.
- Hugh Laddie
Sir Hugh Laddie (born April 1946) is a former British High Court judge. He is a specialist in intellectual property law. Laddie was educated at Aldenham School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and became a barrister. After 25 years at the IP bar, he was appointed as a High Court judge in April 1995, and joined the Chancery Division, mainly hearing cases in the Patents Court.
- Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL (born October 19, 1929) is a developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Having trained as a civil engineer in South Africa, he moved to King's College London to research cell biology, particularly the development of the embryo. He is currently professor of biology as applied to medicine in the department of anatomy and developmental biology at University College London.
- Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson FRS (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) established the discipline of mathematical statistics. A sesquicentenary conference was held in London on 23 March 2007, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He was also a socialist.
- William Smith
Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. He was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College London he carried off both the Greek and Latin prizes. He was entered at Gray's Inn in 1830, but gave up his legal studies for a post at University College School, …
- Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki is Professor of Neurobiology at the University College, London. He joined the College's teaching staff in 1969 and has been a professor of neurobiology since 1981. He graduated from University College, London in 1964 and earned his Ph.D. in anatomy there in 1967. Zeki specializes in studying the organization of the primate visual brain and, more recently, in studying the relationship between brain activity and artistic appreciation and creativity.
- Will Champion
Will Champion (born William Champion, 31 July 1978) is the drummer of the band Coldplay. Champion was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England where his father, Timothy Champion, is professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton. Having two teacher parents led him to be musically inclined. As a youth, his musical influences included Tom Waits and traditional Irish folk music. He grew up playing guitar, but also had experience on the piano, bass, and tin whistle.
- John Sutherland
John Sutherland (born 1938) is an English lecturer, emeritus professor, newspaper columnist and author. Now Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, John Sutherland began his academic career after graduating from the University of Leicester as an assistant lecturer in Edinburgh in 1964. He specialises in Victorian fiction, 20th century literature, and the history of publishing.
- Adrian Furnham
Adrian Furnham (born 1953) is a British organizational and applied psychologist, management expert and Professor of Psychology at University College London. In addition to his academic roles, he is a consultant on organizational behaviour and management, writer and broadcaster. Furnham is a prolific writer for both the popular and academic press and one of the most quoted contemporary experts in his field.
- Guy Berryman
Guy Rupert Berryman (born 12 April 1978) is a musician and a member of the group Coldplay. He plays bass guitar and is known as the soft-spoken member of the band. Eventhough he is left handed, he plays bass in the orthodox way. Berryman was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, but he moved to Kent, England at age twelve. He has been playing bass guitar since he was sixteen. He grew up on funk and groove music and collects rare editions of those records.
- Jonathan Wolff
Jonathan Wolff (1959 -) is a Professor and Head of Department specialising in political philosophy at University College London, in England. He is married, and has one son named Max. Wolff earned his MA from University College under the direction of G.A. Cohen. He is the secretary of the British Philosophical Association and honorary secretary of the Aristotelian society, which publishes "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society".
- Michael White
Michael White (born 1945) is an associate editor and former political editor of "The Guardian". After studying for a BA (Hons) History at University College London, he began his career at the "Reading Evening Post" (1966-71) and after a spell at the "London Evening Standard" (1970-71) he moved to "The Guardian" where he has worked ever since variously as a sub/feature writer (1971-74), diary writer (1974-76), …
- Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin, QC, FBA (born 1931) is an American legal philosopher, and currently professor of Jurisprudence at University College London and the New York University School of Law. He is known for his contributions to legal philosophy and political philosophy. His theory of "law as integrity" is one of the leading contemporary views of the nature of law.
- Uta Frith
Uta Frith is a leading developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College, London. She has published many papers on autism and dyslexia, as well as several books. Her most well known book is 'Autism: Explaining the Enigma' which provides an introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of autism.
- Jonny Buckland
Jonathan Mark Buckland (born 11 September 1977), known as Jon or Jonny Buckland, is the lead guitarist of the band Coldplay. Buckland was born in London, England, and lived there until the age of four, when his family moved to Pantymwyn, North Wales. He was encouraged to enter the music scene by his elder brother, who was a big fan of My Bloody Valentine. Buckland started playing the guitar at the age of eleven, …
- Ted Honderich
Ted Honderich (born 1933) is Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. He is a Canadian-born British academic philosopher, of Mennonite origin, who moved to London in 1959 to work with Alfred Ayer. His brother was the late publisher Beland Honderich. In 1972, he became Reader in Philosophy at University College London, and was Grote Professor from 1988 until his retirement in 1998.
- Chris Frith
Chris Frith (born March 16, 1942, United Kingdom -) is a psychologist working at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. His primary interest is in the applications of functional brain imaging to the study of higher cognitive functions in humans. With over 270 publications, Frith is one of the ISI Highly Cited authors in Neuroscience. His H-index is 104. He is author of a number of important neuroscience books, …
- Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter (born 1963) is an American professor of law and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been teaching since 1995. Before this he taught for two years in the law school at the University of San Diego, and was also a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Princeton University and both his J.D. and Ph.D. (in philosophy) from the University of Michigan.
- Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees (born November 27, 1967, United Kingdom -) is a professor of cognitive neurology at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Institute of Neurology, University College London. After medical training in Cambridge, Oxford and London, he completed his PhD under the supervision of Chris Frith at University College London's Functional Imaging Laboratory in 1999.
- Catherine Hall
Catherine Hall is a controversial feminist historian from the UK, and currently Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at UCL. The author of several key books in British social history and ideology, she attempts to assess the interrelating axes of class and gender, to which she has recently added race.
- Zoubin Ghahramani
Zoubin Ghahramani is a researcher in the area of Bayesian statistics and machine learning. He has made significant contributions in the areas of Bayesian machine learning (particularly variational methods for approximate Bayesian inference), as well as graphical models and computational neuroscience. He obtained his Ph.D from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Michael I. Jordan.
- Peter Coveney
Peter V. Coveney is currently (April 2005) Professor in Physical Chemistry and Director, Centre for Computational Science (CCS) at University College London (UCL). Coveney is probably best known to the general public for his two popularizations in science: # PV Coveney and RR Highfield, "The Arrow of Time" (WH Allen, London, 1990; Ballantine, New York, 1991). # PV Coveney and RR Highfield, "Frontiers of Complexity" (Fawcett, New York, 1995; Faber and Faber, …
- Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz FRS (March 26, 1911 - April 20, 2003) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970. Born in Leipzig to a Jewish family, Germany, he was educated at the Albert Gymnasium in that city from 1921 to 1929 and went on to study medicine at the University of Leipzig.
- Peter Dayan
Peter Dayan is the director of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at the University College London. He is the a co-author of 'Theoretical Neuroscience', a leading textbook of computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems (see computational neuroscience).
- Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay, Wales) is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He read astronomy at University College London and obtained a DPhil at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford in 1974. After a career as an academic at the University of Durham (with two years at the Royal Greenwich Observatory), being appointed a professor at Durham in 1985, …
- Simon Baron-Cohen
Dr. Baron-Cohen holds a degree in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford; a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry; and a Ph.D. in Psychology from UCL. He serves as Director of the Autism Research Centre and as a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He also is a Director of CLASS , the C ambridge L ifespan A sperger S yndrome S ervice.
- William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon). Ramsay was born in Glasgow, the son of William Ramsay, C.E. and Catherine, née Robertson. He was a nephew of the geologist Sir Andrew Ramsay.
- Jon Driver
Jon Driver is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London and a leading psychologist / neuroscientist in the UK. He is Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and also a Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL. The UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) is a leading interdisciplinary research centre that studies the brain basis of mental processes in health and disease, for adults and children.
- Neil Smith
Neilson Voyne Smith FBA, better known as Neil Smith (born 1939) is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London. He wrote his PhD (1964) on the grammar of Nupe, a language of Nigeria. Since then his research has encompassed theoretical syntax, language acquisition, the 'savant' syndrome, and general linguistic theory, particularly the work of Noam Chomsky. In the 1990s he began working with an autistic man, Christopher, …
- Charles Kay Ogden
Charles Kay Ogden (June 1 1889 Fleetwood, Lancashire - March 21 1957 London) was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer.
- Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.
- Hazel Genn
Dame Hazel Gillian Genn, DBE QC is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London and a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. Genn is also a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. She is Chair of the Public and Legal Education Task Force and was Chair of the Advisory Panel for research on Family Advice and Information for the Legal Services Commission.