Andrew Parker

Professor of Physiology, University of Oxford

Andrew Parker is Professor of Physiology at the University of Oxford. He graduated in Natural Sciences in 1976 and obtained a doctorate in 1980, from the University of Cambridge. He later transferred to Oxford and, after a year as a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, was appointed to a University Lecturership in Physiology at Oxford, where he was awarded the title of Professor in 1996. He is Fellow and Tutor in Physiology at St John’s College and has been awarded Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2004-5) and a Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society. Parker’s research interests cover a wide range of topics in vision, with a particular emphasis on linking neuronal activity to perceptual judgments. He is the author of The Genesis Enigma: Why The Bible Is Scientifically Accurate (2010).