Between 2008-2013, he was a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow. Between 2006-2008, he was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow. He spent two years as a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Neural Science, New York University. His PhD, funded by a Wellcome Trust Prize PhD Studentship, was awarded in 2003 from The University of Nottingham. He was awarded an MSc in Neuroscience from University of Oxford and BSc in Psychology from University of London, Goldsmiths College.