Alan Baddeley is professor of Psychology at the University of York.
He has previously held professorships at the Universities of Stirling, Bristol and Cambridge and visiting appointments at the Universities of California, Harvard, Otago, Queensland and Texas. He has written five books on human memory, and edited a further seven. He has received the American Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Contributions to Research, and was awarded the Aristotle prize for contributions to European psychology. He has a life-long interest in the study of human memory and its deficits following disease or brain damage, and has been awarded a CBE for his contributions to this field.