In office: 2022 – 2026

University of Oxford & St John’s College, Oxford, UK

Andrew Parker is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford and currently Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Biology at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. He is also a Fellow of St John’s College Oxford, where he was Tutor in Physiology and served for 12 years as Principal Bursar of the college. Andrew read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and continued there for his PhD, during which he studied spatial vision in the Kenneth Craik Laboratory. He moved to Oxford with a Beit Memorial Fellowship and began working on the physiology of the visual system, which continues to be a focus of his current work in Magdeburg. Andrew has been a member of the PhysSoc since he arrived in Oxford and has given the GL Brown lectures on the physiology of binocular stereoscopic vision. He has spent research visits at MIT, Stanford and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and has been awarded a higher doctorate (ScD) by the University of Cambridge.