Professor Andrew Sharott

Professor Andrew Sharott is a Governing Body Fellow at Green Templeton College and an MRC Investigator at the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford. He is a member of the Academic Committee at Green Templeton.

Professor Sharott’s key research areas are the mechanisms through which large populations of neurons across the brain enable cognition and behaviour, identifying the ways in which these neural dynamics are disturbed in disease, and developing ways of normalising these pathological activities for therapy using brain stimulation.

Professor Sharott graduated in Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham in 2001. He then moved to University College London to study for his Ph.D. in Neurological Studies, with a focus on oscillations in the basal ganglia network, under the supervision of Professor Peter Brown. In 2005, Professor Sharott moved to the University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany), to undertake postdoctoral work with Professor Andreas Engel. As a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher in Hamburg, Professor Sharott continued to study oscillations in the basal ganglia, including recordings from patients undergoing the implantation of deep brain stimulation electrodes for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

In summer 2009, Professor Sharott came to Oxford as an MRC Investigator Scientist to work in the Magill Group, where his research was focused on the use of in vivo electrophysiological recording techniques to examine the role of striatal neurons in the dopamine-intact and Parkinsonian brain. In 2015, he was promoted to MRC Programme Leader.

View a list of Professor Sharott’s selected publications here

Contact:  andrew.sharott@bndu.ox.ac.uk