Anil Seth
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. He is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, a European Research Council Advanced Investigator, and Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness. He has published more than 200 research papers and has been recognized by Web of Science, over several years, as being in the top 0.1% of researchers worldwide. His two TED talks have been viewed over sixteen million times. In 2023 he was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for his services to public outreach and Prospect Magazine listed him as one of the Top 25 global thinkers for 2024. His 2021 book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller and named ‘Book of the Year’ by countless periodicals.