Susan Diana Iversen (born 28 February 1940) is a British

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. She is a former Professor of Psychology at the

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Early life and education

She attended

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. At Cambridge she did a BA in Zoology followed by a

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in Experimental Psychology.

Career and research

Iversen was a fellow of

, from 1964 to 1975. From 1981 to 1993 she was a fellow of

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. She served as president from 1984 to 1986 of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, which publishes the ''

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'', and the

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from 1988 to 1990. She was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2005, and also professor of psychology. She served as head of the department of Experimental Psychology from 1993 to 2000.

Awards and honours

Iverson was elected a

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(FMedSci) in 1999. She served as editor of ''

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'' from 1997 to 2000. She was appointed a

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(CBE) in the

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Personal life

She married

Leslie Iversen Leslie Lars Iversen (31 October 1937 – 30 July 2020), was a British pharmacologist, known for his work on the neurochemistry of neurotransmission. Career and research From 1971 to 1982, Iversen was Director of the MRC Neurochemical P ...

in 1961. They have a son and a daughter. She is the daughter of Jack and Edith Kibble.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iversen, Susan 1940 births Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge British psychologists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Experimental psychologists Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Psychology educators Psychopharmacologists Living people