Keynote speaker Anil Seth is one of the world’s most incisive and popular neuroscientists. An engaging science speaker, Anil Seth is also a celebrated author. His 2014 book 30-Second Brain introduced neuroscience to a generation of readers.

Anil Seth is a popular speaker, author, and media personality, and a trailblazing researcher of neuroscience. He is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. Seth is also Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex.

In his academic writings and as Editor in Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness, Seth explores the biological basis of consciousness. He chaired the 16^th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and is an ASSC member-at-large. He complements his prolific academic writings with books, articles, and also public appearances that share his insights with general audiences.

Seth’s 2017 TED talk, “Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality,” has been viewed more than 11 million times. He has been invited to speak at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, at public high schools, and at conferences around the world.

As consultant for Eye Benders, he contributed to the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize winner for 2014. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness challenges our conventional understanding of perception in groundbreaking yet accessible terms.