Professor Latham received his PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1986. After post-doctoral training he moved to the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he was promoted to Associate Research Scientist. He also worked at the National Institute of Mental Health, where his research interests shifted towards Neuroscience, and UCLA before joining the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London, where in 2009 he was promoted to Professor.