Bio

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty years. He is the author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and a 2021 Book of the Year for the Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, and a Science Book of the Year for the Guardian and the Financial Times.. His 2017 TED talk on consciousness has been viewed more than thirteen million times, he has appeared in several films (The Most Unknown, The Search), and he has written for Aeon, The Guardian, Granta, New Scientist, and Scientific American. He was the 2017 President of the British Science Association (Psychology Section) and winner of the 2019 KidSpirit Perspectives award. He has published more than 200 academic papers and is listed in Web of Science ‘highly cited researcher’ index, which recognizes the world’s most influential researchers over the past decade. He is the lead scientist on the groundbreaking Dreamachine project. Specialties: Basic and applied research, technical and non-technical communication of complex scientific issues, consciousness science, functional connectivity analysis.