Ruth Empson

Ruth Mary Empson is a New Zealand physiology academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago.
Academic career.
After a 1993 PhD titled " 'Primary and secondary epileptic foci from hippocampus and neocortex in the tetanus toxin model of chronic epilepsy' " at the University of London, Empson moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.