Trevor Robbins is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and former Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Trevor is one of the most cited neuroscientists in the World (H index=269), with nearly 1000 full papers and has co-edited ten books (including the Neurobiology of Addiction (OUP 2009). He was elected FRS in 2005 and made a CBE for services to medicine in 2012. Among several awards, he shared the valuable Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize in 2014 and has the Gold Medal of the US Society of Biological Psychiatry (2017), and the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Award for Cognitive Neuroscience (2017). Professor Robbins was invited to give the Society Lecture at the SSA’s 2025 Annual Conference. The title of his talk was, ‘The neural and psychological basis of compulsive drug-seeking’.