At the end of 2008 I completed my doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford under the guidance of Dr. Jozsef Csicsvari and Professor Peter Somogyi. There, my work focussed on identifying changes in the cooperative network activity of neural cell assemblies between waking, sleep and anaesthetised states.
This exposure to in vivo brain recording technologies and their use in exploring the relationship between brain state and behaviour has deepened my interest in the discrepancies between how we experience the world and how our brains ‘experience’ the world. Specifically I am interested in questions of knowledge acquisition and understanding within the Neurosciences, and its dissemination to a wider non-specialist audience.
Currently I am a Visiting Artist and Senior Research Scholar at the Department of Information Science and Information Studies (ISIS) at Duke University, North Carolina (http://www.isis.duke.edu/), where I am continuing the exploration of these interests through art installation and new forms of digital media visualisation. Presently, my work is focussed on identifying the ‘common ground’ that exists between our understanding of brain function and our own, everyday, experience of the phenomena that brain function engenders.
A link to my CV
A link to my thesis-summary