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Steven Rose is a neurobiologist and Professor of Biology at the Open University, where he established and directed the Brain and Behaviour Research Group. He has received many accolades for his pioneering research into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory. Steven Rose has also held visiting professorships and appointments at the Australian National University, Harvard, University of Minnesota (Hill Distinguished Visiting Professor) and the Exploratorium in San Francisco (Osher Fellow). He was a founder member of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science, has been a Council Member of the Research Defence Society and a member of COPUS, the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science. He has been awarded the Biochemical Society medal (2002) and the Edinburgh Medal (2004) for excellence in the public communication of science. As well as hundreds of research papers, Steven Rose has written, contributed to and edited a range of books, including The Chemistry of Life (1964), Science and Society (1969), The Conscious Brain (1973) ; No Fire no Thunder (1984), Not in our Genes (1984); Molecules and Minds(1989), and The Making of Memory (1992) He also is a regular writer and reviewer for magazines and national UK newspapers, and makes frequent contributions to radio and TV programmes. His latest books include Lifelines (1997) and a book on the brain for children, Brainbox (1998), co-authored with a 12 year old, Alexander Lichtenfels. He is also the editor of the book, From Brains to Consciousness (1998). '[My task is to] offer an alternative vision of living systems, a vision which recognizes the power and role of genes without subscribing to genetic determinism, and which recaptures an understanding of living organisms and their trajectories through time and space as lying at the centre of biology.' [from Lifelines] |
