I work as a Professor and cognitive neuroscience researcher based in Brisbane, Australia, where I lead the TimingLab at Queensland University of Technology.

My research interests lie in understanding how the brain generates the real-time conscious experience of the world that we all take for granted. I am currently especially interested in how the brain solves the computational problems caused by the fact that processing input from the senses in the brain itself takes time. How do our brains give us the illusion that we perceive the present, even though these processing delays mean we are always living in the past?

In addition to my academic research and teaching, I provide executive education and professional development training, such as the Understanding Human Behaviour course I organise through QUTeX.

In my training, I apply fundamental scientific knowledge from neuroscience to help participants understand the roots of human behaviour: why we are wired to do what we do. I show how you can use what we know from decades of scientific research to about how the brain works to make it work for you, tackling questions such as:

• The mind: what is the consciousness, and how does it arise from the brain?
• Learning: how does memory work, and how can we learn effectively?
• Decision making: which conscious and unconscious processes influence the choices we make?
• Perception and attention: what factors determines which things and events we become aware of, and which we never notice?
• Interpretation: what systematic biases affect our thinking, and how can understanding those biases help us understand the behaviour of others?