Irene Tracey | |
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![]() Irene Tracey giving her admission speech on becoming Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 2023. | |
Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford | |
Assumed office 1 January 2023 | |
Chancellor | The Lord Patten of Barnes The Lord Hague of Richmond |
Preceded by | Louise Richardson |
Personal details | |
Born | Irene Mary Carmel Tracey 30 October 1966 Oxford, England |
Spouse | [1] |
Children | 3 |
Education | Merton College, Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
Known for | Vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford |
Awards | Suffrage Science award (2014) Feldberg Prize (2017) |
Website | www |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuroscience[2] |
Institutions | University of Oxford Harvard University |
Thesis | MRS and biochemical studies on animal models of human disease (1993) |
Doctoral advisor | Jeffrey F. Dunn[3] |
Irene Mary Carmel Tracey CBE FRS FMedSci MAE FRCA (born 30 October 1966[1]) is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former Warden of Merton College, Oxford.[4][5] She is also Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor (without portfolio) at the University of Oxford.[6] She is a co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), now the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging.[7] Her team’s research concerns the neuroscience of pain, specifically pain perception and analgesia as well as how anaesthetics produce altered states of consciousness. Her team uses multidisciplinary approaches including neuroimaging.[2][8][9]
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