George Paxinos is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at NeuRA and Scientia Professor at UNSW. He finished high school in Ithaca, Greece, and studied at U California at Berkeley, McGill and Yale. He identified 91 hitherto unknown regions in the brain of rats and humans. He has published 57 books on the brain and spinal cord of humans and experimental animals and a novel. He constructed the first highly accurate stereotaxic coordinates and atlases for the brain of rats, mice, birds, monkeys and humans – a factor facilitating neuroscience research since the early 1980’s. Paxinos received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the Australian Psychological Society and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS). Correspondingly, he is a Fellow of two learned Australian academies – the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Science. He received the Humboldt Award and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his work in neuroscience. He was president of ANS and IBRO Word Congress of Neuroscience. Works in which he is first author have been cited 75,538 times and the entirety of his scientific works has been cited 100,646 (Google Scholar, April 2019).