Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey | |
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Tracey's admission speech on becoming Oxford's Vice Chancellor, 2023 | |
| Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2023 | |
| Chancellor | Chris Patten William Hague |
| Preceded by | Louise Richardson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Irene Mary Carmel Tracey 30 October 1966 Oxford, England |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Gosford Hill School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil) |
| Awards | Suffrage Science Award (2014) Feldberg Prize (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | University of Oxford Harvard University |
| Thesis | MRS and Biochemical Studies on Animal Models of Human Disease (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jeffrey Dunn |
| Website | www |
Irene Mary Carmel Tracey (born 30 October 1966) is a British neuroscientist who is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former Warden of Merton College, Oxford. She is also Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor (without portfolio) at the University of Oxford. She is a co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), now the University of Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging. Her team’s research concerns the neuroscience of pain, specifically pain perception and analgesia as well as how anaesthetics produce altered states of consciousness. Her team uses multidisciplinary approaches including neuroimaging.