Updated 25/09/2024
I am currently a EUTOPIA-SIF MSCA Fellow at the University of Gothenburg (DICE Lab) on the project "Socially Assistive Robot Partners for Digitized Cognitive Intervention Therapy (SARP-DCI)." (Oct 2022 - Oct 2024).
I have previously been a researcher on the interdisciplinary project, "Diversity Creates Diversity: Helping Nature-Recovery Meet the Diverse Needs of People and Nature", funded through the NERC Discipline Hopping Grant by the University of Sussex (UK) between January 2022-March 2022, as part of the Sandom Lab.
I also conduct independent research in the areas of bio-inspired intelligence, social cognition, artificial life, (social) affective computing and adaptive systems/cybernetics.
I am part of the ALife Newsletter coordination team: a bi-monthly digital publication for Artificial Life (ALife) community updates.
I host the What ALife! Podcast and also occasionally feature on the BiotaCast podcast.
I am currently the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair for the Emerging Researchers in ALIFE (ERA) group for 2023/24.
& the Social Outreach Chair for the International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL).
I also coordinate the ALife & Society Special Interest group which hosts a seminar series and an interdisciplinary working group.
I regularly co-organise the ALIFE & Society Special Session as part of the ALIFE conference.
I hold a visiting lecturer position at the University of Hertfordshire, and have taught across the MSc Computer Science programme (e.g. Research Methods, Machine Learning & Neural Networks, Professional Issues, Team Research & Development) and supervise both BSc and MSc student projects.
I train and occasionally compete as a hybrid fitness athlete.
I am the Lead Performance Coach at enActive Performance
And I write/produce music as part of a hip-hop collective.
Currently Playing: Core Keeper | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | Battle Spirits Saga TCG |
Currently Reading: Phenomenology: An Introduction | Life's Other Secret | Embodied Cognition
Current Music: Coheed and Cambria, Thrice, Trivium, Killswitch Engage