Professor Jon Brown
Head of Department
Prof Jon Brown is Head of the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, responsible for the academic leadership of the department. Jon is a neuroscientist, specialising in neuronal and synaptic circuit dysfunction in rodent models of human neurological and psychiatric disease. He studied Neuroscience at the University of Manchester, before taking up a research scientist role at GlaxoSmithKline, where he obtained his PhD (awarded by the University of Bristol). After some time, he returned to academia taking up a post-doctoral position at the University of Bristol, whilst maintaining close links with the pharmaceutical industry.
Jon joined the University of Exeter in 2012, to establish an applied neurophysiology lab, funded initially by an Alzheimer’s Research UK Senior Research Fellowship. As well as running his research group, he has been closely involved with the development of Neuroscience education programmes in the department.