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Employment

EPSRC Leadership Fellow, October 2008 - present
Senior Lecturer  Dept. of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, October 2008 - present
Lecturer, Dept. of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, October 2006 - Sept 2008
Associate Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, July 2004 - October 2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, June 2001 - July 2004

D.Phil. Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex, March 2001
M.Sc. Knowledge-Based Systems, University of Sussex (distinction), Oct 1996
B.A. (M.A.) Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge (first class), June 1994

Research interests

Theoretical Neuroscience, Consciousness, Cognitive Science, Neurorobotics,  Artificial Life, Adaptive Behavior, Neuroimaging.

Academic

Associate Editor for Adaptive Behavior. Guest editor for Neuroinformatics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B). Editor of Scholarpedia (Cognitive Neuroscience, Consciousness). Review editor for Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Editorial board member of Cognitive Computation, Science and Consciousness Review, eCognito. Member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Society for Adaptive Behavior, and the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Associate member of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Co-organiser of: Brain, Cognition and Technology summer school, Barcelona, Sept 2008, Artificial Consciousness: From Alife to Mind, Winchester, August 2008, Animal Consciousness: Towards a Scientific Description and a Natural History, Las Vegas, June 2007, A Scientific Framework for the Study of Animal Consciousness, Oxford, June 2006, Neurodynamic Methods for the Analysis and Control of Cognitive Behaviors, Indiana, June 2006, Modeling Natural Action Selection, Edinburgh, UK, July 2005, Neurorobotic Models in Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics, Los Angeles, July 2004.

Reviewer for Acta Biotheoretica, Adaptive Behavior, American Naturalist, Artificial Life, Autonomous Robots, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience, Bioessays, Biosystems, Cognition, Consciousness and Cognition, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Physical Review E, Physics Review Letters, PLOS, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Nature, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Neurocomputing, Neuroimage, Neuroinformatics, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Scholarpedia, as well as for EPSRC, NSF, and for several international conferences.

Course organizer for Adaptive Systems (2006-08). Course organizer and designer for Mathematics for Computer Science Applications (2006-08). Lecturer for Seminars in the Neurosciences (2008-). Other lecturing (1997-2000): Adaptive Behaviour in Animals and Robots, Artificial Life, Adaptive Systems, Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Physiology and Behaviour of Animals, and Animal and Machine Intelligence.

Departmental research head (2008). M.Sc. dissertation convenor (2007-08).  Primary supervisor of 4 D.Phil. students, several M.Sc. students and several UG students.

Grants/Awards

EPSRC Leadership Fellowship EP/G007543/1 "Towards a Next Generation Computational Neuroscience" (GBP ~1,300,000), 2008-2013 (ranked #1 in panel).
Departmental travel grant (GBP 1200), 2008
Departmental strategic research fund (GBP 2300), 2007
Departmental travel grant (GBP 1100), 2007
Royal Society travel grant (GBP 840), 2007                  
EPSRC research studentships, 1995-2000
King's College (Cambridge) Richards Prize, 1994
Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1992-1994
Wantage School English & Mathematics prizes, 1988-1990

Current h-index = 8.

Media

Neuroethik no. 6 (Mar 31, 2006): Animal Consciousness feature (in German). [.pdf]
New Scientist (Nov 5, 2005): The robot that thinks like you (cover story). [.pdf]
Morgenblaðið (Oct 8, 2005): Af lífænni meðvitund og frelsi viljans (in Icelandic). [.jpg]
Consultant for New Scientist, BBC Horizon, Discovery channel, US World and News.

Nationality: British (United States permanent resident until 2009/04)
Date of birth: 6th November, 1972
Languages: English (native), Spanish (good), Italian (good), French (fair)