modelling as a Systems biology approach to Epidemiological modelling. He subsequently became a member of Independent SAGE, an independent, public-facing alternative to the COVID-19 pandemic government advisory body Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. In 2022, Friston became the Chief Scientist at the California-based artificial intelligence company VERSES. Awards and achievements In 1996, Friston received the first Young Investigators Award in Human Brain Mapping, and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999) in recognition of contributions to the bio-medical sciences. In 2000 he was President of the international Organization for Human Brain Mapping. In 2003 he was awarded the Minerva Golden Brain Award and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006 and received a Collège de France Medal in 2008. His nomination for the Royal Society reads He became of Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2012, received the Weldon Memorial Prize and Medal in 2013 for contributions to mathematical biology and was elected as a member of EMBO in 2014 and the Academia Europaea in 2015. He was the 2016 recipient of the Charles Branch Award for unparalleled breakthroughs in Brain Research and the Glass Brain Award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the universities of York, Zurich, Liège and Radboud University. References External links Karl J. Friston, The mathematics of mind-time, Aeon, (May 2017) Versita.com (Emerging science publishers) http://versita.com/friston/ Interview on Spain TV program (English) http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/redes/redes-formula-del-cerebro-vo/1253761/ Karl J. Friston - Podcast Interview on the Free Energy Principle & Schizophrenia (English) https://externalmedicinepodcast.com/karlfriston/ 1959 births Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British neuroscientists Academics of University College London Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal Society Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology