Member Profile: Eleanor Maguire
01 June 2018Dublin born neuroscientist Professor Eleanor Maguire was admitted as an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.
Eleanor Maguire is professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She is one of Ireland’s pre-eminent scientists, with a stellar reputation for her work on the brain structures supporting memory, spatial navigation and mental time travel.
Her most famous work is her series of studies of London Taxi drivers where she documented changes in hippocampal structures associated with acquiring the "Knowledge" of London's layout.
She has won many awards for her work, including the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award.
She has been elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and is a fellow of the Royal Society.