Irene Tracey

Irene Tracey CBE FRS FMedSci is Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford and Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, a department she led for several years. She is also President of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS). She was a founding member of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, and its Director from 2005 to 2015. She is a leading pain neuroscientist. She is on the Medical Research Council. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Medical Research in 2022, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2015), and was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (2023).