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</b>Dept. of Informatics,<b> </b>University of Sussex, 2008 -<b> </b>2009<b> <br/> </b></span> </font> <b> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">L</font></b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="en-us"><b>ecturer, </b>Dept. of Informatics, University of Sussex, 2006 - 2008<b> <br/> </b></span> <b>Associate Fellow</b>, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, 2004 - <span lang="en-us">2006</span><br/><b>Postdoctoral Fellow</b>, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, 2001 - 2004</font> </p><font color="#ff0000" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Education</font> <p> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>D.Phil.</b> Computer Science &amp; Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex, 2001<br/><b>M.Sc.</b> Knowledge-Based Systems, University of Sussex (distinction), 1996<br/><b>B.A. (M.A.)</b> Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge (first class), 1994</font> </p> <p> <font color="#ff0000" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Academic</font> </p> <p> <font size="2" face="Arial">Editor-in-Chief of <i>Frontiers in Consciousness Research </i>(2009-). Associate Editor for <i>Adaptive Behavior </i>(2005-2012)<i>, Connection Science </i>(2014-)<i>, Cognitive Computation </i>(2008-), and <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i> (2009-). Editor of <i>Scholarpedia</i> (Consciousness, Cognitive Neuroscience, 2006-). Guest editor for <i>Neuroinformatics </i>(2005), <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B) </i>(2007) and<i> Cognitive Neuroscience</i> (2010). </font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="Arial">Editorial board member of <i>Science and Consciousness Review, eCognito, International Journal of Machine Consciousness, Seminars in Brain and Consciousness</i>. Member of the <i>Society for Neuroscience,</i> the <i>Society for Adaptive Behavior</i>, the <i>Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness </i>(life member), and the <i>UK Synaesthesia Association</i>. Associate member of <i>Behavioral and Brain Sciences</i>.</font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="Arial">Co-organizer and conference chair for <a href="http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_16" target="_blank">ASSC16</a>, Brighton, July 2012 (500 participants). Co-organiser of: <i>Information Transfer and Causal Network Analysis, </i>Brighton, July 2009<i>, Measuring consciousness: From behavior to neurophysiology</i>, Berlin, June 2009<i>, Cognition and Technology</i> summer school, Barcelona, Sept 2008<i>-</i>present<i>, Artificial Consciousness: From Alife to Mind</i>, Winchester, August 2008, <i>Animal Consciousness: Towards a Scientific Description and a Natural History</i>, Las Vegas, June 2007, <i>A Scientific Framework for the Study of Animal Consciousness</i>, Oxford, June 2006, <i>Neurodynamic Methods for the Analysis and Control of Cognitive Behaviors</i>, Indiana, June 2006, <i>Modeling Natural Action Selection</i>, Edinburgh, UK, July 2005, <i>Neurorobotic Models in Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics</i>, Los Angeles, July 2004.</font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="Arial">Reviewer for <i>Academic Press, Acta Biotheoretica, Adaptive Behavior*, American Naturalist, Artificial Life*, Autonomous Robots, <span lang="en-us">Behavioral and Brain Sciences, </span>Behavioral Neuroscience, Bioessays, Biosystems, Brain and Language*, Brain Connectivity, Brain Structure and Function, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience*, Consciousness and Cognition*, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Human Brain Mapping*, Human Frontiers of Science Journal, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Computational Neuroscience*, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Journal of Neural Engineering, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience Methods*, MIT Press, Nature, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Neurocomputing, Neuroimage*, Neuroinformatics, Philosophical Transactions of the R<span lang="en-us">o</span>yal Society, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, PLOS-One, PLOS Computational Biology*, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Robotics and Autonomous Systems</i>, <i>Trends in Cognitive Sciences</i>, <i>Scholarpedia</i>, as well as for EPSRC, ERC, NSF,<span lang="en-us"> Netherlands Research Foundation Israeli Science Foundation, and for </span>several international conferences. (* frequent reviewer)</font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="Arial">Member of EPSRC College (2010-). Conference chair ASSC16 (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 2012); scientific programme committee member for ASSC15. Frequent committee member for ALIFE (International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems), ECAL (European Conference on Artificial Life), ICDL (International Conference on Development and Learning), GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference), INNS-NNS (International Neural Network Society, New Direction in Neural Networks), SAB (International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior), BICS (Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems), AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour). </font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="Arial">Course organizer for <i>Neuroscience of Consciousness </i>(2010-);<i> Adaptive Systems</i> (2006-08); <i>Mathematics for Computer Science Applications </i>(2006-08). Lecturer for <i>Seminars in the Neurosciences</i> (2008-), <i>Computational Neuroscience</i> (2010-). Other lecturing (1997-2000): <i>Adaptive Behaviour in Animals and Robots, Artificial Life, Adaptive Systems, Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Physiology and Behaviour of Animals,</i> <i>Year 2 Brighton &amp; Sussex Medical School</i>, and <i>Animal and Machine Intelligence</i>.</font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="Arial">Departmental research head (autumn 2008). M.Sc. dissertation convenor (2007-08).&nbsp; </font> </p> <p> <font face="Arial" size="2">Advisory Board Member for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.edureka.in/">www.edureka.in</a></font></p><p> <font color="#ff0000" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Grants/Awards</font> </p><p> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">EPSRC <a href="mailto:Creativity@home">Creativity@home</a> programme for research leaders, <b>£20,000</b>, 2012-13, PI<br> Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation &quot;Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science&quot; </font> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman">, </font> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>&pound;(not public)</b>, 2013-2016, lead PI.</font> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> EU FP7 ICT CEEDS &quot;Collective experience of empathic data systems&quot;, <b>EUR 370,620</b> to Sussex (EUR 6.9M in total), 2010-2014 (primary partner)<br/>EPSRC EP/H024638/1 &quot;Cross disciplinary feasibility account&quot;, <b>&pound;201,085</b>, 2010-2011, Co-I (4 investigators)<br/>Consciousness Science Scholarship for Sackler Centre (anonymous donor), <b>&pound;40,000</b>, lead PI<br/>Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation &quot;Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science&quot; </font> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman">, </font> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>&pound;500,000</b>, 2010-2013, lead PI.</font> <br/> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">EPSRC Leadership Fellowship EP/G007543/1 &quot;Towards a Next Generation Computational Neuroscience&quot;, <b>£1,089,089</b>, 2009-2013 (ranked #1 in panel).<br/>Departmental travel grant (<b>&pound;1200</b>), 2008<br/>Departmental strategic research fund (<b>&pound;2300</b>), 2007<br/>Departmental travel grant (<b>&pound;1100</b>), 2007<br/>Royal Society travel grant (<b>&pound;840</b>), 2007&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br/>EPSRC research studentships, 1995-2000<br/>King's College (Cambridge) Richards Prize, 1994<br/>Scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1992-1994</font> <br/> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <br/>Current <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_number">h-index</a> = 18; (Sep 2012, by Web Of Knowledge)</font> </p><p> <font color="#ff0000" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Selected Media</font> </p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Swedish Public TV (Dec, 2013): World of Science<br> BBC Radio 4 (Dec, 2013): Frontiers documentary: The power of the unconscious<br> Wired (Oct, 2013): Neuroscientists develop equations to predict disasters</font> <br> <font face="Arial" size="2"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/brain-to-brain-interfacing-remote-control">Warning: This article contains brain-to-brain interfacing</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>, Aug 28<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/15/near-death-experience-brain-last-hurrah"> Near-death-experiences: The brain's last hurrah</a>.&nbsp; <i>The Guardian</i>, Aug 15<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/01/consciousness-eight-questions-science/"> Eight Key Questions for Consciousness Science</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>, March 1, 2012.<br> The <a href="Media/JhaSethSmithFrith_Feb2012.mp3">Guardian Science Podcast</a> (Feb 24, 2012): &quot;Consciousness: The Hard Problem&quot;.&nbsp; With Alok Jha, Chris Frith, and Barry Smith.<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Argus (Oct, 2010): Neuroscience and the Guitar [.<a href="Media/argus2010.pdf">pdf</a>]<br/>The Observer (May, 2010): My bright idea [.<a href="Media/Observer_May9th_2010.pdf">pdf</a>]<br/>The Times (May, 2010): Unlocking secrets of the brain [.<a href="Media/times_may19_2010.pdf">pdf</a>]<br/>New Scientist (Apr, 2010): Interview on consciousness [.<a href="Media/seth_newsci2010.pdf">pdf</a>]</font></p> <font color="#ff0000" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Personal </font> <p> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nationality: British <br/>Languages: English (native), Spanish (good), Italian (good), French (fair) </font> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p></ul> </body> </html>