Contact

We are located at Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

Tom Baden

Professor of Neuroscience

School of Life Sciences
BN1 9QG Brighton.
+44 1273 87 3772
t.baden@sussex.ac.uk

ORCID: 0000-0003-2808-4210

Career summary
2025 – Co-Director, Sussex Neuroscience
2023 – 2024 Board of Directors, European Brain Council
2022 – 2023 IBRO – Pan-European Committee
2020 – 2024 Human Frontiers Science Programme – Grants Review Panel
2021 –              Director, Centre for Sensory Neuroscience and Computation.
2018 –              Professor of Neuroscience, University of Sussex, UK.
2016 – 2018    Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience, University of Sussex, UK.
2018 – Co-founder, TReND in Africa (www.TReNDinAfrica.org).
2010 – 2016    Postdoc in lab of Thomas Euler, U of Tuebingen, Germany.
2008 – 2010    Postdoc in lab of Leon Lagnado, MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK.
2004 – 2008    PhD in lab of Berthold Hedwig, University of Cambridge, UK.
2001 – 2004    BA/MA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.

Major Honors and Awards
2024 – ERC Advanced Grant “Cones4Action”
2023 – Elected to EMBO membership
2022 – Boehringer Ingelheim-FENS Research Award.
2021 – Wellcome Investigator Award
2019 – Nature/Tencent Global Impact Award.
2019 – Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Biology.
2018 – Lister Prize for Preventive Medicine.
2018 – Fellow, EMBO Young Investigator Programme.
2017 – Fellow – FENS KAVLI Network of Excellence.
2017 – Sir Philipp Leverhulme Prize.
2017 – Nature/Eppendorf Prize.
2016 – ERC Starting Grant “NeuroVisEco”