Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Seth is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness. Seth’s mission is to advance the science of consciousness, and to use its insights for the benefit of society, technology, and medicine.

Seth was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press), a role he served from 2014-2024. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and on the Advisory Committee for 1907 Research and for Chile’s Congreso Futuro. He was Conference Chair for the 16th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC16, 2012) and was an ASSC ‘member at large’ from 2014-2022. He previously co-directed the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness, and was an Engagement Fellow with the Wellcome Trust (2016-2020).

Seth’s research has been supported by the EPSRC (Leadership Fellowship), the European Research Council (ERC, Advanced Investigator Grant), the Wellcome Trust, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Seth’s 2021 book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, a New Statesman Book of the Year, an Economist Book of the Year, a Bloomberg Business Book of the Year, a Guardian Book of the Week, an El Pais Book of the Week, and a Guardian and Financial Times Science Book of the Year. Seth’s 2017 main-stage TED talk has more than 15 million views and is one of TED’s most popular science talks. Seth’s 2018 conversation with Sam Harris appeared in his recent book of 11 favourite interviews. Seth edited and co-authored the best-selling 30 Second Brain (Ivy Press, 2014), and he also writes the blog NeuroBanter.