Professor Anya Hurlbert BA MA MD PhD

Anya Hurlbert is Professor of Visual Neuroscience and Dean of Advancement at Newcastle University, where she co-founded the former Institute of Neuroscience and now steers the Centre for Transformative Neuroscience. She holds degrees from US (Princeton University, MIT, Harvard Medical School) and UK institutions (Cambridge University), in physics, physiology, brain and cognitive sciences, and medicine.  Her 200+ scientific publications include papers in Nature, Science and Current Biology, handbook chapters, and invited reviews. Her research interests follow two themes: fundamental and applied science of human colour vision, using psychophysics, computational modelling, and neuroimaging, with applications in colour vision deficiency, imaging, lighting, and visual art; and AI-based retinal image analysis.  She co-authored the book Color in Nature (Princeton University Press; 2024),  received the Newton Medal (the Colour Group GB; 2022) and the Edridge-Green Medal (the Royal College of Ophthalmologists; 2017) amongst other awards.  She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Vision, member of the Rank Prize Optoelectronics Committee, former Vice President of the Vision Sciences Society, Director of the International Colour Vision Society, former Scientific Trustee of the National Gallery, a current Trustee of the Science Museum Group and Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Science and Media Museum.