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Since 1970 Zeki has been based at University College, being appointed the Professor of Neurobiology in 1980. He was Co-Head of the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London from 1994 to 2001.
Zeki has conducted anatomical and physiological studies of the primate visual brain. Since 1987, he has used positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the human visual brain.
Zeki has lectured on the subject the world over. Among the more than 50 named lectures he has given are The Ferrier Lecture (Royal Society), the Sir Humphry Davy Lecture (Académie des Sciences, Paris), the Philip Bard Lecture (Johns Hopkins University), the Paul Broca Lecture (Lyon), the Getty Public Lecture (Los Angeles), the David Marr Lecture (Cambridge), the Koetser Lecture (Zurich), the Burda Lecture (Munich), Sigma Tau Lecture (Milan), the Donders Lecture (Netherlands), and the Hayaishi Lecture (Osaka) and Carl Bernhard Lecture (Stockholm).
He has also lectured specifically on art and the brain at various institutions around the world, including the Tate Gallery (London), the Musée d'Orsay(Paris), Gemäldegalerie (Berlin), the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Akademie der bildenden Kunste (Vienna) and the Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, the Netherlands. In 2003 he curated the exhibition Colore e Cervello at the Casa Rusca in Locarno, Switzerland, to coincide with the Retrospective Exhibition of the works of the Italian painter, Piero Dorazio.
He has served as a Trustee of Fight for Sight, London and of the Minerva Foundation, Berkeley, California. He was a member of the National Society Council of France from 1998 to 2002 and is a member of the Board of Scientific Governors of The Scripps Research Institute, California. He was Editor of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences and has served on the editorial boards of several other journals specialized in neurobiology.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (London), a member of the Academia Europaea and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also a member of the Scientific Board of Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.
His Prizes include the Minerva Foundation Prize, The LVMH Science pour l’art Prize, the Rank Prize in opto-electronics, The Electronic Imaging Award, the Koetser Prize and the King Faisal International Prize in Biology.
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