Prof. David Dupret

David Dupret’s research investigates how coordinated neuronal network activity supports memory processes and guides behaviour.

He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Institut François Magendie (INSERM, University of Bordeaux, France), receiving the French Neuroscience Association’s 2007 Ph.D. Year Prize. He also holds an Agrégation ès Natural Sciences (Ministry of Education, France, 2000).

David joined the laboratory of Prof. Jozsef Csicsvari at the MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit in Oxford in 2007 as a Visiting Fellow, funded successively by the Institute of France (Foundation Louis D. Research Fellowship, 2007) and the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO Research Fellowship, 2008). In 2009, he was appointed as an MRC postdoctoral scientist and became a Fellow in Neuroscience at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. He was promoted to MRC Programme Leader Track scientist in 2011 and to tenured MRC Programme Leader in 2014.

He was named a Scholar of the FENS–Kavli Network of Excellence in 2016 and received the Boehringer Ingelheim–FENS Research Award in 2018 for his work on the dynamics of neuronal assemblies in memory processes. He was awarded the title of Professor of Neuroscience by the University of Oxford in 2020, elected to membership of Academia Europaea in 2024, and appointed a Member (Knight) in the Order of Academic Palms by the French Republic in 2025.