I was
born in Oxford, England. After receiving a First from Cambridge University (UK) in
Natural Sciences, I gained an M.Sc. with distinction from Sussex University. I
received my D.Phil. also from Sussex on the subject of artificial
evolution. In 2001 I joined The
Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, California, where I was a
Postdoctoral and then Associate Fellow. I returned to Sussex in 2006,
where I am now a Reader, an EPSRC Leadership Fellow, and Co-Director of the
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science.