I joined the CCNR, the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, at the University of Sussex as a new part-time D.Phil. student in October 2004 and switched to full-time study in October 2007. Before that I spent four years in the Department of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, where I graduated with an M.Eng. in Computer Science and Cybernetics.
The focus of my Ph.D. is the study of social cognition by using an evolutionary robotics methodology. The context of this research is a systemic approach to life and cognition that is strongly inspired by the autopoietic tradition developed by Maturana, Varela and colleagues. I’m also very much interested in the constructivist epistemology entailed by this perspective, as well as its relationship to first-person approaches to the study of consciousness, in particular as it is proposed by enactive cognitive science.
