John Henry Richard Maunsell (born 1955) is a British-American neuroscientist who is the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Chicago.
John Henry Richard Maunsell was born in Great Baddow, Essex, England in 1955[1] younger son of Henry Ian Geoffrey Maunsell (1924–2013), of New Jersey, USA, an electronic engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Stella Christine, daughter of Leonard Vincent Labrow, of Moreton, Maybury Hill, Woking, Surrey.
Maunsell completed a postdoctoral research appointment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with neuroscientist Peter Schiller.
He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2014, where he remains employed as of 2021 as the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Neurobiology.
[4][3] He is also the inaugural Director of the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior.