Masud Husain is Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Brain.
Masud studied Medicine at Oxford and was a Harkness postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He subsequently held positions at Imperial College London and became Professor of Neurology at University College London and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery London. At Oxford, he leads a research group which studies motivation, decision-making and memory in healthy people and patients with brain disorders.