About Karl J. Friston
Karl John Friston (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. == Early life and education == Karl Friston attended the Ellesmere Port Grammar School, later renamed Whitby Comprehensive, from 1970 to 1977. Friston studied natural sciences, physics and psychology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1980, and completed his medical studies at King's College Hospital, London. == Career == Friston subsequently qualified under the Oxford University Rotational Training Scheme in Psychiatry, and is now a professor of neuroscience at University College London.
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