Professor Ashkan is professor of neurosurgery at School of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience as well as professor in School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London. He is the lead for Functional and Oncological Neurosurgery at King's College Hospital. His clinical practise covers the 4.5 million population of South East London and Kent, translating into over 4000 operations as a consultant so far. He is the Co-Lead for King’s Research Governance and Feasibility Group. He is the President of the British Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and the Lead for the Glioma Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership Section of the100K Genomes Project. He is the immediate past chairman of the Surgical Group of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. Prof Ashkan’s main clinical and research interest include deep brain stimulation, basal ganglia anatomy and physiology, intra-operative imaging and physiology, image guided surgery, immunotherapy, brain tumour genomics, minimally invasive neurosurgery, radiosurgery, new and novel therapies and patient reported outcome measures. He has won over 20 undergraduate and postgraduate prizes and scholarships. He has attended/ chaired/ presented papers in over 250 national and international meetings and published over 600 full papers, abstracts and book chapters. To date he has been Chief/ Principal Investigator in over 30 major studies/ trials. He is the Associate Editor of the British Journal of Neurosurgery. In 2011 he won the UK’s Best Medical Team Award with the deep brain stimulation team; in 2018 he was voted Clinician of the Year nominated by the Brain Tumour Charity and in 2021 he was the runner-up for the UK Ground-Breaking Pioneer Award.