People

Organiser: Simon Brown

Dr. Simon Brown is a Research Officer in Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research is about which animals are conscious and what kinds of memory different animals might have.

You can find out more about him at www.simonbrownphilosophy.com

Organiser: Ross Pain

Dr. Ross Pain is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol, where he studies Philosophy of Biology and Archaeology, trying to understand how we evolved and how science can study this. You can find his research here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/ross-pain

Organiser: Giulia Palazzolo

Dr. Giulia Palazzolo is a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is interested in philosophical and empirical questions connected to the study of animal communication and language evolution. You can find out more about her research here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/palazzolo/

VR Experience: Daria Zakharova

Daria is a PhD student in Philosophy at the LSE, where she studies Philosophy of Mind, AI, and consciousness in machines and invertebrates. She spearheaded the immersive art project In Search of Spider Consciousness, including building a giant interactive sculpture in the Spanish desert and a VR experience. You can follow her on Twitter here: https://x.com/dariazakharova9

Scientific Collaborator: Marc Holderied

Professor Marc Holderied is a Professor of Sensory Biology at the University of Bristol. He studies bioacoustics, including bat echolocation and how moths are camouflaged against it, and engineering projects inspired by these findings in animals. You can find out more about him here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Marc-Holderied-e0361b7c-e5ce-415b-acef-779935d362df/

Scientific Collaborator: Sarah Skeels-Jungius

Dr. Sarah Skeels is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University in London. After completing her PhD on Weakly Electric Fish at the University of Oxford, she is currently working on whether insects are conscious. You can find out more about her here: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/staff/sarah-skeels-jungius.html

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