Joe Herbert (born 8 April 1936 ^[1]) is Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. ^{[2] [3]}

Education

Herbert received a BSc (Hons. Class I) in Anatomical Studies from the University of Birmingham in 1957 followed by a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1960 and a PhD in neuroendocrinology from the University of London in 1965. ^[1]

Career

Prior to joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge as a lecturer in 1971, Herbert was a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Birmingham. There he worked under Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, who had supervised his PhD. Herbert has been a fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge since 1976. He was the Director of Training at the University of Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair (1992-2014) ^[4] and a past president (1982) of the International Academy of Sex Research. In the course of his career, Herbert has served as the PhD supervisor or Post-doctoral mentor of several distinguished British neuroscientists, including Barry Everitt, Alan Dixson, Angela Roberts, Barry Keverne, Michael Hastings, and David Abbott.

Research

Herbert's work has primarily focused on hormones; The Guardian has called him 'one of the world's leading endocrinologists.' ^[5] His areas of expertise include the role of hormones in the ability of the adult brain to make new nerve cells (neurons) and repair the brain; how hormones regulate behavior; the neuroscience of stress; how hormones, genes and the social and psychological environment interact to promote the risk for depression; and studies on the way that hormones and genes influence financial decision-making. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]} He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. ^{[11] [12]}

Writing

Herbert has authored two books, The Minder Brain (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007), ^[13] and Testosterone: Sex, Power and the Will to Win (Oxford University Press, 2015). ^[14]

Bullying allegation

In August 2022, Herbert was found in a report to have bullied a junior female colleague during a dispute over a controversial slavery report. ^{[15] [16]}

References

External links

• Cambridge Neuroscience biography of Joseph Herbert