MSF’s “Distinguished Debates in Consciousness”

SUSAN GREENFIELD

Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield obtained her first degree at St Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently obtained her PhD in the University Department of Pharmacology. Greenfield held post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford, the College de France, Paris and New York University Medical Center. She is currently Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University and Director of the Royal Institution.  As a consequence of working in both biochemical and electrophysiological environments she has developed a novel imaging technique for investigating consciousness via the action of neuronal assemblies in the brain.

Christof Koch received a PhD in nonlinear information processing from the Max Planck Institute. He currently holds the position of Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology at the California Institute of Technology. Koch has been active since the early 1990s in the promotion of consciousness as a scientifically tractable problem, and has been particularly influential in arguing that consciousness can now be approached using modern tools of neurobiology. His primary collaborator in this endeavor was the late Francis Crick, and together the team coined the term “neural correlates of consciousness”.

For more information on Dr. Koch's approach
to consciousness research:

A Framework for Consciousness
(Nature, 2003)