In office: 2017 – 2021

Cardiff University, UK

Frank Sengpiel is 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. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and the Royal Society of Biology.

His research focuses on plasticity of the visual system and disorders of binocular vision, particularly amblyopia. He became a Member of The Physiological Society in 2001. He has served as convenor of the Neural Development & Plasticity Special Interest Group and as Theme Lead for Cellular & Integrative Physiology. He was elected to the Board in 2017.