Ian Stolerman

Ian Stolerman is Professor of Behavioural Pharmacology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He qualified in Pharmacy, followed by a PhD in psychopharmacology, by which time his interest in drug dependence was evident. Such research was the focus of his subsequent work, initially as a postdoc at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) and then at the University of California (LA).

He was a member of the MRC Neuropharmacology Unit (Birmingham, UK) and visiting lecturer at the University of Maryland (College Park), before moving to the Institute of Psychiatry in 1980. The research for which he is best known is on nicotine, an area in which he has worked for over 30 years. Other work have extended to benzodiazepines, cocaine, opioids and abused drug mixtures.

He was a founder of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society and was its first president, and subsequently served as president of the Society for Stimulus Properties of Drugs. He served on the editorial boards of several journals and was a receiving editor for Neuropharmacology and for the British Journal of Pharmacology. In 1992 he became Co-Editor of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, responsible for all manuscripts originating outside the Americas, and since then editorial duties have played a major role in his working life.