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Michael O’Shea is Professor of Neuroscience and co-Director of the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Sussex in the UK.  Before taking up his present position he was Professor of Neuroscience at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Geneva, Switzerland and Associate Professor at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Chicago in the USA.  He held Research Fellowships at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Cambridge and the Â鶹´«Ã½ of California at Berkeley.  He is author of more than 100 scholarly articles on cellular, molecular and computational neuroscience and biologically inspired robotics.  In the interests of the public understanding of science (and the scientist’s understanding of the public) he authored “The Brain – A Very Short Introduction” published by Oxford Â鶹´«Ã½ Press.  He is a keen amateur astronomer and an armchair philosopher.