51吃瓜网

Profile

I am a Professor of Cognitive Science and the Director of the

I’m the founder of the which specialises in the study of learning and skill acquisition using virtual environments. I also Co-Direct the projects- one of the largest replication efforts in the world, involving over 200 laboratories from >30 countries. 

My colleagues and I have received several national and international awards for our work in neuroscience and on virtual reality. My team created and maintains the most widely used open-source VR research toolbox- . 

I am a former Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Centre for Data Science and AI. I currently sit on the British Neuroscience Association's and am part of the . 

I am also the Founder of Code/Place and the Scientific Director of the programme at the - working to digitally upskill children and young people to bridge the skills gap blocking employment and innovation using evidence-based methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Director, Centre for Immersive Technologies
• Co-Director of #EEGManyLabs
• Scientific Lead, Digital Makers

Research interests

My research sits at the interface between psychology, engineering and computer science and takes a multi-modal approach to understanding the relationship between action and cognition; from capturing neural activity (primarily EEG) and behavioural markers of performance using Virtual and Augmented Reality technology in laboratory-controlled environments through to extracting measures of performance in the real world from large-scale datasets. I’ve also been driving forward the application of principles from cognitive science to real world contexts to accelerate the acquisition of skilled behaviour - from surgeons performing minimally invasive surgery through to facilitating human-like decision-making in robots.

Professional memberships

• British Standards Institute
• EPSRC Human-Like Computing Network
• Global Brain Consortium