"Decisions, Decisions"
Watch a short film about the research I conducted during my PhD.
This film was the product of a collaboration with Matilda Hay (producer/director), Roly Witherow (music), Lieke de Boer (actress/researcher) and Patrick Haggard (researcher).
Won first prize ex-aequo in the ICN Brains on Film Competition, in March 2014, and was selected for the People’s Choice Award of the Society for Neuroscience Brain Awareness Video Contest, in September 2014.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Jul 2026
Interviewed for BBC Radio 4 Documentary The Art of Being a Zombie Ant Fungus
Discussing the neuroscience of agency and free will.
May 2026
Invited Panellist, Zombie Ant Fungus: The Chemistry of Control, Royal Institution, London
Discussing the neuroscience of agency and free will.
March 2019
Speaker at La Semaine du Cerveau 2019 (Brain Awareness Week), ENS, Paris
Talk: La liberté vue par les neurosciences (Freedom as seen by neuroscience).
October 2016
Invited Contributor to Weekend School on Has Science Shown that Free Will is an Illusion? , The Philosophical Society - Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.
June 2016
Invited Speaker, Out of Control Symposium at Wellcome Collection, London
Talk: Who's in Control? Insights from Neuroscience
August 2015
Invited Speaker, Beyond the Brain XI Conference Free Spirits or Determined Machines?, Latimer Place.
Talk: How do we Know what we are Doing? Evidence for a Prospective Sense of Agency