I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University. Prior to that I was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN, University College London). I obtained my PhD in neuroscience from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Currently my main research focus is on the neural basis of spatial and episodic memory, spatial navigation, and the involvement of the medial temporal lobe in visual cognition. More broadly, I am also interested in large scale brain modelling, AI, central pattern generators, biologically inspired robotics, and the scientific study of consciousness.

I am a physicist by training, and time permitting I moonlight as a writer. My first novel (a satire) is available on Amazon.
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Recent News
Sep 2023, New paper out in Neural Networks - A large scale model of visual and spatial cognition
Apr 2023, Conference paper on spiking neuron and mechanical models of the spinal cord, at AMAM
Mar 2023, Talk at the Computational Neuroscience Symposium, Kavli Institute, Trondheim, Norway
Nov 2022, SFN poster on spiking neuron spinal cord models 
Mar 2022, Symposium talk at COSYNE 2022, on Mental Navigation
Sep 2021, New paper out in PLoS Computational Biology: A model of head direction and landmark coding in ...
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