Robin Murray

Robin Murray is Professor of Psychiatric Research at The Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He joins a tiny handful of psychiatrists to be honoured with a fellowship of the Royal Society throughout it long and illustrious history. Robin Murray graduated in medicine at University of Glasgow in 1968, and began his training in psychiatry in 1972 at the Maudsley Hospital in London. He started research at the Institute in 1975 and has, more or less, remained there ever since – a rare example of institutionalisation being wholly positive for both the institution and the individual. Murray is currently Britain’s most highly cited psychiatry researcher, and is the third most highly cited researcher in schizophrenia in the world. He has won most of the major prizes in psychiatry and has been honoured with awards from countries throughout the world including the USA, Germany, Finland, Italy, Brazil and Denmark. In 2005, he was chosen as one of the top role models in medicine by the BMA. He has supervised 52 PhDs and 35 of his students have become professors. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010 and received a knighthood in 2011.