L'experte en Neurosciences Susan GREENFIELD


Susan greenfield neurosciences conference intervenante contact

SUSAN GREENFIELD est une conférencière exceptionnelle sur la créativité et le leadership. Elle est un neuroscientifique britannique de premier plan, écrivain, personnalité TV et Radios,  et membre de la Chambre des Lords. Tout en se spécialisant dans la physiologie du cerveau, ses domaines de recherche incluent l'impact de la technologie du 21e siècle sur l'esprit, la façon dont le cerveau génère la conscience ainsi que de nouvelles approches des maladies neurodégénératives telles que la maladie d'Alzheimer et la maladie de Parkinson.

Baronne Greenfield est l’ancienne directrice de l’Institution royale de Grande-Bretagne et est d’ailleurs la première femme à occuper ce poste. Elle est professeur de pharmacologie à l’Université d’Oxford, où elle dirige une équipe multidisciplinaire de chercheurs sur les troubles neurodégénératifs. En outre, elle est directrice du Centre d’Oxford pour la science de l’esprit où elle explore la base physique de la conscience.

SUSAN GREENFIELD  publie de nombreux ouvrages tels que  » Le cerveau humain : Une visite guidée  » (1997 ) ,  » La Vie privée de cerveau» (2000 ) , et «Les gens de demain : Comment la technologie change la façon dont nous pensons et ressentons  » (2003 ) et » « ID » – la quête d’identité au 21e siècle », publié en mai 2008 par Hodder Publishing . Elle a essaimé quatre compagnies de ses recherches, est régulièrement présente dans les médias imprimés et électroniques , et conduit un rapport du gouvernement sur «les femmes et la science » . Elle reçoit trente doctorats honorifiques d’universités britanniques et étrangères et devient, entre autre, membre honoraire du Collège royal des médecins (2000 ) ainsi que de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (2003 ) . En 2007, elle est nommée membre de la Royal Society of Edinburgh .

En 2011, Baronne Greenfield rejoint le conseil consultatif de l’École Kusuma des sciences biologiques à l’Institut indien de technologie de Delhi. En 2012, elle reçoit le titre de membre honoraire de l’Institut de la gestion des risques et devient également  vice-présidente de POWER International. Susan Greenfield est également gouverneur de la Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health et soutient le CCI (Conseil Consultatif International ).


Mots clés :  Business & Management Futur & Technologie Innovation & Créativité, Comportement Futur Performance,    Le futur de l'esprit,  Conscience: comment le cerveau fonctionne ,  La neuroscience de la créativité,  Sciences,   Démence: présent et futur, Femmes scientifiques



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BARONESS SUSAN GREENFIELD is a leading British neuroscientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Whilst specializing in the physiology of the brain, her areas of research include the impact of 21st century technology on the mind, how the brain generates consciousness as well as novel approaches to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons.

 

She was both an undergraduate and graduate at Oxford University, taking a DPhil in the Department of Pharmacology in 1977. She subsequently held research fellowships in the Department of Physiology Oxford, the College de France Paris, and NYU Medical Center New York. In 1985 she was appointed University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology, and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College, Oxford, before promotion to a University Professorship in 1996.

 

From 1998 to 2010 she served as Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a post held jointly with her chair in Oxford. She is now CEO of a biotech company  which she founded in 2013 to develop a disruptive approach to Alzheimer’s disease based on her research exploring novel brain mechanisms linked to neurodegeneration, on which she has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers.


SUSAN GREENFIELD has been awarded 32 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities and in 2000 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. Further international recognition of her work has included the ‘Golden Plate Award’ (2003) from the Academy of Achievement, Washington, the L’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (2003), from the French Government, and the 2010 Australian Medical Research Society Medal. She was awarded a CBE in the Millennium New Year’s Honours List, and was granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001.

 

In 2004 and 2005, she served as ‘Thinker in Residence’ in Adelaide, reporting to the Premier of South Australia on applications of science for wealth creation. She was appointed as Chancellor of Heriot Watt University 2005-2012, and in 2007 was elected into the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. From 2014 - 2016 she held an annual Visiting Professorship at the Medical School, University of Melbourne.


SUSAN GREENFIELD also studies the physical basis of the mind: in 1995 she published her own theory of consciousness Journey to the Centres of the Mind (1995), which was developed substantially in The Private Life of the Brain (2000). Meanwhile, her book The Human Brain: A Guided Tour (1997) ranked in the British best-seller lists, and is still in print as a popular introduction to the brain for non-specialists. It was followed by Tomorrow’s People: How 21st Century technology is changing the way we think and feel (2003), which explored human nature and its potential vulnerability in an age of technology. These ideas were expanded in her later book, ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century (2009). In addition she has written a novel ‘2121: A Tale form the Next Century’, published in 2013, which describes a dystopia a hundred years from now. The theme of unprecedented changes to contemporary human cognition, arguably comparable in its significance to Climate Change, was briefly explored in a monograph You and Me (2011), and was developed further in an in-depth exploration of the impact of technology on the brain in ‘Mind Change: How 21st Century Technology is leaving its mark on the brain’ ((2014). Her latest book ‘A Day in the Life of the Brain: Consciousness from Dawn ‘til Dusk’ was published by Penguin in October 2016.


As a result of her original background in classics, SUSAN GREENFIELD held the Presidency of the Classical Association for 2003 – 2004 and in 2010 was elected to a Fellowship of the Science Museum. From 2000 she was a Forum Fellow at the World Economic Conference at Davos for ten years. In 2002 she authored the Greenfield Report SET Fair: A Report on the Retention and Recruitment of Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology. Greenfield has been profiled in a wide range of papers and magazines, voted one of the 100 most influential women in Britain by the Daily Mail in 2003, and ‘Woman of the Year’ by the Observer in 2000. In 2014 she was included in Debretts ‘Top 500’ of the most influential people in Britain today.


TOPICS   : Business & Management Futur & Technologie Innovation & Creativity, Behavior Futur Performance, The future of the mind, Consciousness: how the brain works, The neuroscience of creativity, Science, Dementia: present and future, Women scientists