David Nutt

David Nutt is a psychiatrist, founding chair of DrugScience and the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology in Imperial College London. The Times Eureka science magazine voted him one of the 100 most important figures in British Science, and the science journal Nature and Sense about Science awarded him the John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science. David hosts The Drug Science Podcast, and his writing has featured in numerous publications, including The Guardian, the Lancet and BBC Science Focus. David is a former President of: the European Brain Council; the British Association of Psychopharmacology; the British Neuroscience Association; and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and he holds visiting Professorships at the Open University and University of Maastricht. In 2016 the University of Bath awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws.