Raymond Joseph Dolan (born 21 January 1954)[2] is an Irish neuroscientist and the Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at University College London, where he was also the founding director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.
In 2015 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
He was one of three recipients of the 2017 Brain Prize, along with Peter Dayan and Wolfram Schultz.
[6] In 2016, he was ranked by Semantic Scholar as the second-most influential neuroscientist in the modern world, behind only his UCL colleague Karl Friston.
[7] In 2019 he was awarded the Ferrier Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society.