Paul Verschure

Paul Verschure is Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies (ICREA) Research Professor, Director of the Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems Laboratory specs-lab.com) at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalunya and the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology. Paul has received his MA and Ph.D. in Psychology, and has worked in Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and his scientific aim is to develop a unified theory of mind and brain, to validate it using synthetic methods and to apply it to quality of life enhancing technologies. To achieve the latter goal Paul is founder/CEO of Eodyne Systems S.L. (Eodyne.com), which is commercializing novel science grounded neurorehabilitation, education and cultural heritage technologies. Paul is founder/Chairman of the Future Memory Foundation (future memory foundation.org) which aims at supporting the development of new tools and paradigms for the conservation, presentation, and education of the history of Nazi crimes. In addition, Paul is founder/Chairman of the Convergent Science Network Foundation (csnetwork.eu) which hosts the annual Living Machines conference and Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school. Paul manages a multidisciplinary team of about 30 researchers (specs-lab.com) with whom he has published over 300 articles in leading journals and conferences in a range of disciplines and has completed 15 Ironman races.