Michael Häusser is Professor of Neuroscience at University College London and a Principal Research Fellow of the Wellcome Trust. He received his PhD from Oxford University under the supervision of Julian Jack. He subsequently worked with Bert Sakmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and with Philippe Ascher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He established his own laboratory at UCL in 1997 and became Professor of Neuroscience in 2001. His group is interested in understanding the cellular basis of neural computation in the mammalian brain using a combination Royal Society