Max Velmans is currently Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Professor of Consciousness Studies at the University of Plymouth. He has around 90 publications on consciousness including Understanding Consciousness (2000), which was short listed for the British Psychological Society book of the year award in 2001 and 2002. Other publications include The Science of Consciousness: Psychological, Neuropsychological and Clinical Reviews (1996), Investigating Phenomenal
Consciousness: New Methodologies and Maps (2000, How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? (2003), and the jointly edited Blackwell Companion to Consciousness (2007). He was a co-founder and, throughout 2004 to 2006, Chair of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society.”