| Authorised form of name | Maguire; Eleanor Anne (1970 - 2025); neuroscientist |
| Dates | 1970 - 2025 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 27/03/1970 |
| Place of death | London, in a hospice |
| Date of death | 04/01/2025 |
| Occupation | Neuroscientist |
| Research field | Clinical neuroscience |
| Biomedical imaging |
| Experimental psychology |
| Behavioural neuroscience |
| Neuroscience |
| Activity | Education:
University College Dublin BA 1990; University of Wales, Swansea MsC 1991; University College Dublin PhD 1994
Career:
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London; died of spinal cancer.
Awards/Medals:
Ig Nobel Prize 2003
IBRO-Kemali Prize 2012
Joan Mott Prize Lecture 2013
Memberships:
MRIA
FBA |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 28/04/2016 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Rosalind Franklin Award 2008 for her scientific achievements in cognitive neuroscience and her exciting proposals to promote women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Committees:
Sectional Committee 8: Multicellular organisms 2017-2020
Rosalind Franklin Award Committee 2011-2014 |
| Relationships | Parents: Anne and Paddy Maguire.
Siblings: Declan Maguire (1965-2019) |
| PublishedWorks | RCN R79939 |
| OtherInfo | She transformed our understanding of how the brain supports navigation, memory and imagining the future, and in particular the role played by a region called the hippocampus. She accomplished this with creative experimental paradigms and novel analysis techniques. By seeking convergent evidence from neuroimaging studies of healthy individuals and neuropsychological studies of patients with memory difficulties, she represented one of the very few who work simultaneously in both disciplines at the highest level. |
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| Source | The Royal Society Fellows Directory, Sir Fraser Stoddart FRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/fraser-stoddart-12357/; last accessed: 16/04/2025]
UCL News, Tribute to pioneering cognitive neuroscientist Professor Eleanor Maguire, 15 January 2025, [URL:https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jan/tribute-pioneering-cognitive-neuroscientist-professor-eleanor-maguire; last accessed: 16/04/2025]
The Irish Times, Obituaries, Eleanor Maguire obituary: Irish neuroscientist who changed our understanding of memory, [URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2025/02/22/eleanor-maguire-obituary-irish-neuroscientist-who-changed-our-understanding-of-memory/; last accessed: 16/04/2025] |
| Code | NA10070 |