Semir Zeki, Date of Birth

Semir Zeki

neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1940

Profession: author, university teacher, neuroscientist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Semir Zeki FMedSci FRS is a British neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics.
He was educated at University College London (UCL) where he was Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society before being appointed Professor of Neurobiology.
Since 2008 he has been Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL.