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Official CV

With more than two decades of research and outreach experience, Anil’s mission is to advance the science of consciousness and to use its insights for the benefit of society, technology and medicine. An internationally leading researcher, Anil is also a renowned public speaker, best-selling author, and sought-after collaborator.

Anil is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, and a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator. In 2014 he founded the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press) and remained Editor-in-Chief until 2024. He has published more than 200 research papers, is recognized as being in the top 0.1% of researchers worldwide (2019-2023, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher) and was named in the Top 50 Innovators list by World Summit AI (2022). He holds degrees in Natural Sciences (MA, Cambridge), Knowledge-Based Systems (MSc, Sussex), and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (Ph.D., Sussex). He carried out his postdoctoral work in San Diego with the Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman.