Editing Semir Zeki (section)

==Posts, honours and awards==
He was Editor of the ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B)'' from 1997 to 2004.

He has been a Trustee of [[Fight for Sight (UK)|Fight for Sight]], a Guarantor of the neurological journal [[Brain (journal)|Brain]], a member and then Chairman of the [[Wellcome Trust]] Vision Panel and a member of the National Science Council of France (1998–2002).

He has been a Visiting Fellow or Professor at St Andrews University; Ludwig-Maxilmilians University, Munich; Duke University, USA, University of California (Berkeley), among other institutions. He has conducted a number of public dialogues with writers, artists and art historians, including Dame Antonia Byatt, Balthus, Hans Belting, Peter Sellars, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Tetsuo Miyajima.

He is a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (1990), Member of the Academia Europaea (1991), Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg) (1993), Foreign Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1998),<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Semir+Zeki&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-06|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> Founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998), Fellow of University College London (2000) and Honorary Member of the Physiological Society (2013).

D.Sc. (honoris causa) from [[Aston University]], [[University of Aberdeen]],  [[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]] and an MD (honoris causa) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Prizes include The Golden Brain Award (1985), Prix Science pour l'art (1991), Rank Prize in Opto-Electronics (1992) (jointly with A. Movshon and T. Adelson), Zotterman Prize (1993); Koetser Foundation Prize (1997), Award in Electronic Imaging (2002); [[King Faisal International Prize]] in Biology (2004), Erasmus Medal (Academia Europaea, 2008), Aristotle Gold Medal (2011), Rome Prize (Atena Onlus) (2012) and the BMI-Kaloy Prize (Kaloy Foundation) 2015. He received the 38th TS Srinivasan Endowment Oration Award 2018, during the TS Srinivasa NIMHANS Conclave.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/brain-can-perceive-beauty-even-in-mathematical-formulae/article22792432.ece|title=Brain can perceive beauty even in mathematical formulae|date=2018-02-19|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-03-23|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> The conclave coincides with the 11th International Congress of the International Neuropsychiatric Association.