Anil Seth
Anil Kumar Seth (born 1972) is a British professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (BA/MA, Cambridge, 1994), Knowledge-Based Systems (M.Sc., Sussex, 1996) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (D.Phil./Ph.D., Sussex, 2001). Early life and education. Seth was born in England. His father, Bhola Seth, obtained a BSc from Allahabad University in 1945, before migrating from India to the United Kingdom to study engineering at Cardiff. Bhola Seth subsequently obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield. His mother, Ann Delaney, came from Yorkshire. Seth 's family was based in rural Oxfordshire. His father was a research scientist at the Esso Research Centre in Abingdon, and won the veterans world doubles title in badminton in 1976. Seth went to school at King Alfred's Academy in Wantage. He has degrees in Natural Sciences (BA/MA, Cambridge, 1994), Knowledge-Based Systems (M.Sc., Sussex, 1996) and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (D.Phil./Ph.D., Sussex, 2001). He was a Postdoctoral and Associate Fellow at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California (2001-2006). Career. Seth is Co-Director (with Prof. Hugo Critchley) of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness  Science and Editor-in-Chief of "Neuroscience of Consciousness". He was Conference Chair of the 16th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and continuing member 'at large' and is on the steering group and advisory board of the Human Mind Project. He was president of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association in 2017. Publications. Seth has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, "Neuroscience of Consciousness." He is a regular contributor to the New Scientist, The Guardian, and BBC, and writes the blog NeuroBanter . He also consulted for the popular science book, "Eye Benders", which won the 2014 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. An introductory essay on consciousness has been published on Aeon – The Real Problem – a 2016 Editor’s Pick. Seth was included in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List that was published by Clarivate Analytics. Popularization of science. Seth appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary "The Most Unknown" on scientific research directed by Ian Cheney.