Today's guest is internationally recognised professor of cognitive neuroscience, Dr Mark Williams.
Mark has over 25 years experience conducting behavioral and brain imaging research focusing on our social skills. He has taught the fundementals of neuroscience to a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as publishing more than 70 scientific articles.
Mark has been awarded numerous high profile fellowships and grants, and worked both at MIT in the USA and at universities in Australia.
He now focuses on making the many recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience more accessible to the general public. His academic background allows him to communicate with authority on science and his passion for education makes him accessible to a wide audience.
Not a typical 'academic', Mark comes from a disjointed family background. He hated school and experienced first-hand the challenges of getting ahead in a small town in Victoria, Australia. To describe these years as 'colourful' is an understatement.
Aged 25, something changed. Mark returned to learning, completed his High School education and began what became a rapid rise to academic achievement, including being awarded both the CJ Martin and the Queen Elisabeth II Fellowships.
He became facinated with how we interact, learn and think. Mark went on to study brain plasticity, attention disorders, autism, prosopagnosia (face blindness), demetia and eating disorders. He has been at the cutting edge of developing computational brain imaging analysis and the adoption of new technologies like virtual reality in research.
He now runs programs for schools and businesses on the neuroscience of learning, the neuroscience of emotions and the impact of modern technologies (like smartphones) on our brains.
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