Duncan Astle

Duncan Astle is the Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinformatics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. He leads the 4D Research Group, one of Cambridge’s largest neuroscience labs, studying how our brains develop and differ over the lifespan. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, and his recent study showing how the human brain ages in five distinct epochs was an international media sensation, with over 365,000 downloads in its first four months. His work has been widely covered in the media, including front-page coverage in The Times and Guardian, features in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and broadcast coverage on the BBC and NBC. He appears regularly as a commentator on BBC Radio 4 and 5. Epoch: The Five Ages of the Human Brain will be published by John Murray in the UK, Basic Books in the US, and will be translated into nine languages so far.