Wolfram Schultz

Wolfram Schultz is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, and a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow since 2001. He has held significant academic roles in Switzerland and the UK, including leadership positions at the University of Fribourg.

• Key affiliations: University of Cambridge (2001-present), University of Fribourg (1977-2001)
• External roles: Visiting Associate in Neuroscience at Caltech (2004-present), Visiting Professorships in Japan

Research focus: Interdisciplinary studies on reward processing in the brain, combining neurophysiology with behavioral economics. His work explores neural mechanisms underlying decision-making, value coding, and learning.

• Neural correlates of economic value and decision-making
• Role of dopamine in reward prediction errors
• Cross-species comparisons of reward systems

Scientific recognition: Elected to EMBO (2014) and Royal Society (2009), with prestigious international awards including the Brain Prize (2017) and Gruber Prize (2018).