TEACHING

In 2025, I will be teaching:

  • COMPSCI 765: Modelling Minds (Semester 1)
  • COMPSCI 369: Computational Methods in Interdisciplinary Science (Semester 1)
  • BIOSCI 702: Systems and Models in the Natural Sciences (Semester 2)
  • SCISCHOL 302: Science Scholars (Semester 2)
  • ASTRO 200G: Astrobiology (Semester 2)

PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS

If you are interested in one or more of the topics presented on this website, and considering graduate study, please feel welcome to get in touch by email. But please do not send through a copy/pasted generic email --- it will likely get deleted without a response.

If you are someone who identifies as belonging to an under-represented group in academia, I'd especially encourage you to get in touch!

CURRENT STUDENTS

Doctoral Students

Natasha Skuljan, Doctoral
June, 2025 — admitted
Modelling Human Exploration of Novel Sensorimotor Contingencies
co-supervised by Chris Erb, Dept. of Psychology
Wanzhen Li, Doctoral
Oct., 2024 — admitted
Manual and Neural Dynamics of Intentional Inhibition
Primary supervisor: Chris Erb, Dept. of Psychology
Tim Irving, Doctoral
Dec., 2023 — ongoing
Computational Underpinnings of Adaptive Self-Organisation in Living Systems
Max Gurr, Doctoral
Sept., 2023 — ongoing
Capturing Memory in Behaviour with Immersive Virtual Reality
Primary supervisor: Chris Erb, Dept. of Psychology; co-supervised by Reece Roberts
Sam Morrison, Doctoral
Mar., 2022 — submitted Jul. 2024
Exploring the Dynamics of Cognitive Control: A Situated and Embodied Approach
Primary supervisor: Chris Erb, Dept. of Psychology; co-supervised by Paul Corballis
Yan Kolezhitskiy, Doctoral
Apr., 2019 — suspended
Stochasticity in Models of Viability
co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
Shuyuan Liu, MAI
Mar. 2025 — ongoing
Machine Learning to Predict Sensorimotor Dynamics
May Gan, Honours Candidate
Mar., 2025 — ongoing
Using a self-organizing map to classify sensorimotor contingencies in a simulated robot
Haozhe Wei, Honours Candidate
Mar. 2025 — ongoing
Machine Learning Augmented Analysis of Sensorimotor Trajectory Data

FORMER STUDENTS

Dr Mario Zarco, Doctoral
Oct., 2018 — Jul. 2024
Sensorimotor behaviour at different scales: from social interaction to the role of culture.
co-supervised with Chris Erb, Dept. of Psychology; Claire Postlethwaite (Maths)
Dr Valerie Jeong, Doctoral
Aug., 2018 — Jul. 2024
Noise in Heteroclinic Network-Based Evolutionary Robotics
co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
Dr James Garner, PhD
Mar., 2019 — Jul. 2023
Investigating Interoception, Affect & Emotion With Simulated Agents
co-supervised with Emily Parke, Dept of Philosophy
Dr Felix Woolford, PhD
July, 2018 — Nov. 2023
Sensorimotor-based Intelligence in Robotics and Simulated Agents
Mahnoor Qadri, Summer Scholar
Dec., 2023 — Jan. 2023
Computing viability boundaries
co-supervised by Claire Postlethwaite, School of Mathematics
Archi Tulsian, Honours
Mar., 2023 — Dec. 2023
Agent-based modelling of competitive breeding strategies in Pukeko
co-supervised by Krystal Cain, School of Biology
Natasha Skuljan, Honours
Mar., 2023 — Dec. 2023
Habit Formation in Novel Sensorimotor Contexts
Vincent Van Der Vegte, Summer Scholar
Dec., 2022 — Jan. 2023
Investigating webots as a platform for teaching and research
Stefan Dyer, Postgraduate Project
Jul., 2022 — Dec. 2022
Categorizing Sensorimotor States of VR-recorded human participants
Thomas Bailie, Honours
Mar., 2022 — Dec. 2022
Evolved Dynamical Systems as Musical Instruments
Primary supervisor: Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
Louis Lin, MSc
Mar., 2021 — Mar. 2022
Computational models of minimal forms of self-preserving behaviour
Isabella Kite, Honours
2019 — 2020
Altering Perception during reaching tasks using Virtual Reality
co-supervised with Chris Erb, School of Psychology
Isabelle Steinmann, Summer Scholar
Nov. 2018 — Mar. 2019
Dynamical Analysis of a Self-Sustaining Behavioural Mechanism
co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
Stefano Cavallero, Honours
Mar. 2018 — Nov. 2018
Guided Self-Organization in a Computational Model of Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
Jerome Wynne, Northern Hemisphere Summer Research Scholar
July, 2018 — Sept., 2018
Dynamical Analysis of Minimal Two-Wheeled Robots
co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
Valerie Jeong, MSc
Mar., 2017 — Mar., 2018
Evolving a Heteroclinic Network in Sensorimotor Tasks
co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
Nidia Jackson, MSc
Mar., 2017 — Apr., 2018
Evolving the Parameters of Heteroclinic Networks to act as Controllers in Embodied Robotics Tasks
co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
Darius Au, Summer Scholar
Dec. 2017 — Feb. 2018
Habit-based Lego Robots
Teddy Halim, Summer Scholar
Dec. 2017 — Feb. 2018
Habit-based Lego Robots