George R. Mangun has been named a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow in recognition of his body of research advancing the fields of psychology and neuroscience. The five-year fellowship will fund Mangun, a distinguished professor of psychology emeritus in the College of Letters and Science, to advance his research, including collaborations at UC Davis.
“I’m honored to be named a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow, and it’s going to help me advance both my research and the very deep relationships and collaborations I built over more than 30 years at UC Davis,” said Mangun.
Mangun is a leading expert on the neuroscience of attention. As principal investigator of the Laboratory for the Neural Mechanisms of Attention at UC Davis, he oversees research that seeks to explain how we perceive and pay attention to events in our environment. His lab’s research has been funded by both the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.
At UC Davis, Mangun founded the Center for Mind and Brain and a founding faculty member of the Center for Neuroscience. He also served as chair of the Department of Psychology and as dean of the Division of the Social Sciences in the College of Letter and Science. Mangun retired from UC Davis in 2026 and now serves as Professor and 125th Anniversary Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience as well as Director or the Centre for Human Brain Health at the University of Birmingham in the U.K.
The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship is funded in partnership by the Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation and is awarded to individuals of proven outstanding ability to undertake independent, original research.
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