Karl J. Friston
Karl Friston | |
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| Born | Karl John Friston 12 July 1959 York, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1980) |
| Known for | Statistical parametric mapping, voxel-based morphometry, dynamic causal modelling, free energy principle, active inference |
| Spouse | Ann Elisabeth Leonard |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience, Mathematical and theoretical biology, Variational Bayesian methods |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Website | www |
Karl John Friston FRS FMedSci FRSB (born 12 July 1959) is a British neuroscientist and theoretician at University College London. He is an authority on brain imaging and theoretical neuroscience, especially the use of physics-inspired statistical methods to model neuroimaging data and other random dynamical systems. Friston is a key architect of the free energy principle and active inference. In imaging neuroscience he is best known for statistical parametric mapping and dynamic causal modelling. Friston also acts as a scientific advisor to numerous groups in industry.
Friston is one of the most highly cited living scientists and in 2016 was ranked No. 1 by Semantic Scholar in the list of top 10 most influential neuroscientists.