Nicholas Rawlins

Who is Nicholas Rawlins?

Professor Nicholas Rawlins is a British experimental psychologist. He was born in 1949, and was married to the philosopher Susan Hurley from 1986 until her death on 16 August 2007.

Nick Rawlins is Watts Professor of Psychology in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include animal learning and memory, brain mechanisms of memory storage, animal models of psychosis, attentional deficits in schizophrenia, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging studies of pain in humans and behavioural phenotyping of genetically modified mice.

Rawlins was a Fellow of University College, Oxford, from 1983 until the end of 2007, when he moved to a Professorial Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford. He retains his link with University College as an Emeritus Fellow. He was appointed as Oxford University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Development and External Affairs on 23 June 2010.

His most cited paper is entitled "Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions", published jointly with Richard Morris, Paul Garrud and John O'Keefe, which has been cited 2,662 times, and was published in Nature in 1982.