Rate My Professor Paul Bays

Bays earned a BA Honours in Natural Sciences, specializing in Experimental Psychology, from Downing College, University of Cambridge, in 2000. He completed his PhD in Neurological Studies at the University of London in 2006, supervised by Professor Daniel Wolpert and funded by a Wellcome Prize Studentship. His career trajectory includes Research Fellow and Lab Manager at the UCL Institute of Neurology (2001–2002), Senior Research Fellow in the Cognitive Neurology group at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (2006–2010), Wellcome-Beit Prize and Research Career Development Fellow at UCL Institute of Neurology (2010–2015), Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, UC Berkeley (2013–2014), and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge (2015–2022). Awards include the Rank Prize Funds Committee Prize for best contributed paper, Wellcome-Beit Prize Fellowship (2010), Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship (2010), and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2015). Notable publications comprise 'Dynamic shifts of limited working memory resources in human vision' (Science, 2008), 'The precision of visual working memory is set by allocation of a shared resource' (Journal of Vision, 2009), 'Noise in neural populations accounts for errors in working memory' (Journal of Neuroscience, 2014), 'Changing concepts of working memory' (Nature Neuroscience, 2014), and 'Reassessing the evidence for capacity limits in neural signals related to working memory' (Cerebral Cortex, 2018). He serves as Reviewing Editor for eLife.