# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/semir-zeki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:31:43.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/semir-zeki"
name: "Semir Zeki"
slug: "semir-zeki"
description: "Semir Zeki is a British and French neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics. He was educated at University College London (UCL) where he was Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society before being appointed Professor of Neurobiology. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL."
tagline: "Neuroscientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Profesor_Semir_Zeki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.23
  momentum:             6.185356811862836
  historical:           8.106230666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=SLSZE59"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سمير زكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Semir Zeki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semir_Zeki"
    title: "Semir Zeki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semir_Zeki"
    title: "Semir Zeki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semir_Zeki"
    title: "Semir Zeki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semir_Zeki"
    title: "Semir Zeki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80"
    title: "Зеки, Семир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semir_Zeki"
    title: "Semir Zeki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump