MATT PARKER

Dr Matt Parker is Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Surrey, UK. He was educated at the University of Southampton, and following post docs at the Royal Veterinary College and Queen Mary University of London, he worked as lecturer in Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at Queen Mary University of London and Nanchang Medical School (China). During his time at Queen Mary, he helped to establish adult zebrafish as a central model organism in behavioural neuroscience, and developed a number of now widely used behavioural protocols in this species. He joined the University of Portsmouth, and established the Brain and Behaviour Lab, in 2015. He left Portsmouth in 2022 to join the Surrey Sleep Research Centre.