The Society is delighted to announce the 2025 recipient of the Exemplary Service to the Society Award as:
- Professor Frank Sengpiel, Cardiff University, UK
This will be celebrated at the President’s Lecture and Award Ceremony which will be held on Thursday 4 December 2025 at The Royal Society of Medicine in London and online.
Professor Frank Sengpiel
Professor Frank Sengpiel is an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Cardiff University, UK. Previously, he worked in the Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford, UK (where he obtained his DPhil) and at the Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology near Munich. Sengpiel’s research focuses on plasticity of the visual system and disorders of binocular vision, particularly amblyopia, as well as more generally on neurodevelopmental disorders. In recent years, visuospatial processing and spatial memory in the retrosplenial cortex has become another major focus of his work.
Sengpiel became a Member of the Physiological Society in 2001 and was elected to the Board in 2015. He joined the Finance Committee in 2016. Sengpiel served as its Honorary Treasurer March 2017 to the end of 2022, extending his role to help the Society during the Covid period. As Chair of the Finance Committee he worked closely with the Governance Working/Implementation Group on the Society’s modernised Articles and Regulations which approved by the membership in 2019. As Honorary Treasurer, he also served ex officio on the Publications & Remunerations committees. Some of Sengpiel’s other exemplary service to the Society includes:
- Sat on the local conference organising committee for Physiology 2015 in Cardiff
- Served on the Education & Outreach Committee (2015 – 2018)
- Awarded a Fellow in 2018
- Coordinated blue plaque unveiling to T. Graham Brown at Cardiff University in 2022
- Co-convenor of the Development & Plasticity Special Interest Group
- Theme lead for the Cellular & Integrative Neuroscience theme from 2010 to 2014 (reviewed numerous neuroscience related grant applications)
- Co-organised a themed meeting (Cardiff 2009)
- Involved in the selection of symposia for both themed and main meetings