Eleanor Maguire | |
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![]() Eleanor Maguire in 2016 | |
Born | Dublin, Ireland | 27 March 1970
Died | 4 January 2025 | (aged 54)
Alma mater | University College Dublin (BA, PhD) University of Wales, Swansea (MSc) |
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Thesis | Real-world spatial memory following temporal-lobe surgery in humans (1994) |
Doctoral students | Demis Hassabis[1] |
Eleanor Anne Maguire (27 March 1970 – 4 January 2025) was an Irish neuroscientist. She was the professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.[2][3] She was also a Wellcome Trust principal research fellow from 2007 until her death in 2025.[4]
Maguire died from cancer on 4 January 2025, at the age of 54.[5]