Professor Steve Edgley

Professor Edgley went to a comprehensive school in rural Cambridgeshire and subsequently to Bristol University to read Physiology. He continued with a Neuroscience PhD in Bristol under Professor David Armstrong, and subsequently three years of postdoctoral studies in Gothenburg Sweden, working under Professor Elzbieta Jankowska. He was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Anatomy at Cambridge University which later merged with Physiology to form the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, where he is currently a Professor of Sensorimotor Neuroscience. In 2019 he had the huge honour of being elected President of St John's College for four years, and was re-elected for two further years in 2023.

Professor Edgley teaches a variety of undergraduate courses, including to first- and second-year medical students (in Functional Anatomy, Cranial Nerve Function and Neurobiology), second-year Natural Sciences students (Neurobiology), and third-year Natural Sciences students. For many years he was involved in developing and organising the neuroanatomy programme for medical students at Cambridge. He is currently heavily involved in the curriculum reviews of both the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos and the Biological Natural Sciences. Between 2015 and 2024 he was Head of Teaching for the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.