Current Position
2009 – Present: Senior Post-doctoral Research Fellow - ITALK Project
Center for Robotics and Neural System, Plymouth University, UK
2008 – Present: Secretary of the International Society for Adaptive Behaviour (ISAB)
Academic Qualifications and Positions
2006 – 2009: Post-doctoral Research Fellow - ICEA Project
Informatics Research Center, University of Skövde, Sweden
2000 – 2006: DPhil in Cognitive Science
Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
Thesis title: Cortical Cognition: Associative Learning in the Real-World, supervised by Dr. Ron Chrisley, and examined by Prof. Tom Ziemke & Dr. Chris Thornton
1999 – 2000: MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems
COGS (Cognitive and Computing Sciences), University of Sussex, UK
Thesis title: Investigations in Feature Mapping, supervised by Dr Emmet Spier
1996 – 1999: BSc (Hons) in Cognitive Science
Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Research Grants and Awards
2008 euCognition Network Action, €5,750. Grant for visiting researcher
2008 euCognition Network Action, €7,500. Organization of workshop on the role of emotion in adaptive behaviour and cognitive robotics
Academic Research & Teaching History
2008 – Present
- Lecturer on the undergraduate robotics course at Plymouth University
- Convenor and Chair of the Future Robotics Seminar Series at the University of Plymouth.
- Member of the program committee of the 25th annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS)
- Co-ordinator of FP7 project proposals
- Co-organizer of the workshop “The role of emotion in adaptive behaviour and cognitive robotics” held in Osaka, Japan 11th & 12th July 2008.
- Secondary DPhil supervisor to Henrik Svensson (Skovde), and Chris Larcombe (Plymouth).
- Invited speaker at the KVIT 2008 conference.
2006 – 2009
- Course Owner, Designer and Lecturer for the Masters level course on Adaptive Robotics at the University of Skövde.
- Reviewer for international Journals including; Connection Science, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Adaptive Behavior, and the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
- Regular reviewer for the Cognitive Science Conference.
- A registered FP7 expert.
2002 – 2003
- Course Designer and Lecturer for the Masters level course on Programming Techniques at the University of Sussex
- Coach for the University of Sussex team entry to the ACM world programming competitions.
2000 – 2005
- Convenor and Chair of the E-Intentionality Research Lecture Series at the University of Sussex
