Dr. Ron Chrisley sits on the Coordination Council of EUCognition, and is both the Director of COGS (the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science) and a faculty member of the Sackler Centre for Conscious Science at the University of Sussex. At Sussex he is also a Reader in Philosophy, and leads the PAICS lab as part of the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems research group in the School of Engineering and Informatics. He has held various research positions in Artificial Intelligence, including a Leverhulme Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and a Fulbright Scholarship at the Helsinki University of Technology, as well as intern positions at NASA-Ames, Xerox PARC, the Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory and ATR Laboratories in Kyoto. He was awarded his doctorate by the University of Oxford in 1997.

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