Matthew C. Walker

Matthew Walker is Professor of Neurology at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He graduated from Cambridge University in Physiology and then completed his medical training at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and his PhD at University College London. He undertakes both laboratory and clinic research including studies into the mechanisms regulating brain excitability, epilepsy surgery, status epilepticus and novel treatments of epilepsy. He is associate editor of Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders was previously an associate editor for the journals, Epilepsia and Brain. He is Chair of the trustees of Epilepsy Research UK, Chair of ILAE-Europe and Chair of the ILAE task force on translational Research. He was made an ILAE ambassador for epilepsy in 2013.