Wolfram Schultz

Wolfram Schultz
Alma mater	University of Heidelberg (MD) University of Fribourg (PhD)
Known for	research that demonstrates that dopamine neurons signal errors in reward prediction
Awards	Brain Prize
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Website	www.wolframschultz.org

Wolfram Schultz is a professor of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge known for his research that dopamine neurons signal errors in reward prediction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and past president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society. Schultz received his medical degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1972 and his PhD in Physiology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He then completed three postdoctoral research fellowships: with the German neurophysiologist Otto Cruetzfeld at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, Germany, Australian neurophysiologist John C. Eccles at State University of New York at Buffalo in the United States, and the neuropsychopharmacist Urban Ungerstedt at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He won The Brain Prize in 2017 and has an h-index of 101.