About Me

I'm currently working as a postdoc at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. I'm looking at calcium signalling in the flagella of a green algae called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. I did my DPhil (aka PhD) research on the human parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, which causes sleeping sickness. This I did at the University of Oxford, where I also did an undergraduate Masters degree in Biochemistry and met my girlfriend Victoria.

You can probably work out most of my interests by browsing this site and its topics. They include:

  • Life (particularly how it evolved, how it processes information and what exactly it is)
  • Artificial life (particularly evolving artificial life)
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Chinese
  • Data analysis (particularly methods of inference and their application to artificial intelligence)
  • Data visualisations (such as those at Information Is Beautiful, Flowing Data and Writing without Words)
  • Go (also called igo and weiqi)
  • Photography
  • Mathematics (statistics, information theory, number theory, not that I know that much any of these)

I write about quite a few of these topics on this website and about various projects I'm working on. This mainly for my benefit, so I can remember what I've done and force myself to draw diagrams, but I hope some of what I write will be of interest to other people. 

This website was designed and created by Victoria, inspired by this photo, which I took in Leamington Spa.

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