Professor Tom Solomon FRCP

Professor Tom Solomon CBE is director of The Pandemic Institute, academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians, vice president (international) of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and chair of neurological science at the University of Liverpool and Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, where he is also consultant neurologist. Tom studied medicine at Oxford, investigates emerging pathogens, particularly those affecting the brain, and heads the multi-disciplinary Liverpool Brain Infections Group which works to reduce the global burden of neurological infections. He was at the forefront of the UK response to Ebola, Zika and COVID-19. Tom is an adviser to the UK government and WHO, appears regularly on BBC television and radio, and is a passionate science communicator, wining a Guinness World Record for his Sci-Art ‘World’s Biggest Brain’ project, and another for running the fastest marathon dressed as a doctor.