Tamas Revesz was trained as clinical neuropathologist in London. After his training, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neuropathologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. He became Reader in 2001 and Professor of Neuropathology in 2004. Till his retirement was the Neuropathologist Director of the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders, which is one of the largest tissue resources for movement disorders and frontotemporal dementias in the UK.
He is past President of the Clinical Neurosciences Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and was an officer of the British Neuropathological Society.
He obtained a PhD degree and subsqauently a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Warwick.
He has a research interest in neurodegenerative diseases and has published extensively in this field. His most recent research wasn’t on understanding patterns of neuropathological progression and mechanisms underlying disease heterogeneity in corticobasal degeneration and other tauopathies. He published over 345 peer-reviewed articles and, according to Scopus, his Hirsch index is 95 and has over 32,000 citations. He is also the author of 22 book chapters and was on the editorial or advisory boards of several international journals.