Duncan Astle is a leading British neuroscientist at University of Cambridge, where he holds the title of Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinformatics in the Department of Psychiatry and serves as a Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. He heads the “4D Lab,” a research group dedicated to mapping how human brains develop over childhood, adolescence and beyond — including how brain organisation relates to learning, cognition and neurodevelopmental diversity. Astle’s work emphasises that variation between individual brains is not just noise, but meaningful diversity, and his group uses advanced neuroimaging and computational-neuroscience tools to explore how neural networks form in both typical and atypical development. He has been recognised with several honours — among them the Early Career Prize of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience — and is also active beyond research as a Fellow and Director of Studies at Robinson College, Cambridge, and as chair of the University’s LGBT+ Staff Network.