Chris Frith was born in Cross-in-Hand, Sussex in 1942. He grew up in London and Yorkshire and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. He trained in clinical psychology at the University of London's Institute of Psychiatry and completed his PhD in experimental psychology, supervised by Hans Eysenck, in 1969. Chris married Uta Aurnhammer in 1966. Their sons Martin and Alex were born in 1975 and 1978. Chris Frith was a staff scientist of the Medical Research Council from 1975 to 1994. While with the MRC he worked on the biological basis of schizophrenia in Tim Crow's unit at Northwick Park Hospital and then on Brain Imaging in the Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital. In 1994 he helped to found the Functional Imaging Laboratory at the Institute of Neurology in Queen Square (subsequently the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL) and was awarded a Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship. From 2007 he has been Emeritus Professor in Neuropsychology at UCL and Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the University of Aarhus. Awards and FellowshipsKenneth Craik Award, St John's College, Cambridge, 1999Member of the Academia Europaea, 1999 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society, 2000 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001 Honorary Doctorate, Paris-Lodron University, Salzburg, 2003 Robert Sommer Award (jointly with Uta Frith), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, 2004 Honorary Doctorate (jointly with Uta Frith), York University, 2004 Burghölzli Award (jointly with Uta Frith), University of Zürich, 2005 Visiting Fellow, All Soul's College, Oxford, 2006 Fellow of the British Academy, 2008 European Latsis Prize (jointly with Uta Frith), 2009 Fondation Fyssen International Prize, 2009 Erik Strömgren Medal, 2009 |