About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR), an interdisciplinary lab that is associated with both the informatics and biology departments at the University of Sussex.

I am exploring the hypothesis that in living systems there are multiple concurrent self-maintaining dynamics that interact in a variety of ways. Such systems would have common and conflicting goals or `norms' i.e. parameters that they must maintain to continue to exist. I hypothesize that understanding how these systems interact and resolve their conflicts may further our understanding of the origin of life and the role of cognition in living systems.

My work at the moment is focused around developing computational models of concurrent autonomous systems. These have thus far taken the form of artificial chemistries, simulations of cells, and extensions of models of autopoietic systems.