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Thomas Wennekers
ORCID iD Cognition Institute, Plymouth University, UK School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, Plymouth University, UK

Thomas Wennekers studied Physics at the Heinrich-Heine University (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Computer Science at the University of Ulm (Germany), where he received a PhD in Computer Science in 1997. He was postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig) from 1999 to 2003, and Juniorprofessor in Theoretical Neuroscience at the Ruhr-University Bochum in 2003. Since November 2003 he is Reader in Computational Neuroscience at Plymouth University (UK). His research interests are large-scale spiking neuron models of sensory, perceptual and cognitive functions, and their application in future computing technologies.

Mathew Emmett
ORCID iD Cognition Institute, Plymouth University, UK School of Art, Design and Architecture, Plymouth University, UK

Dr Mathew Emmett, is an experimental architect, artist, composer and academic. He works across constructs of hybrid space, site-responsive installation, data-generated sound and emerging technologies. Among other collaborations and international commissions Emmett works with the avant-garde artist Eberhard Kranemann, choreographer Adam Benjamin, Perception Lab and Charles Jencks. In June 2016 Emmett performed Sender Receiver using a digitally augmented bullroarer to communicate with This Is Where We Are, a data-driven digital sculpture created by i– DAT at the Tate Modern.

Susan L. Denham
ORCID iD Cognition Institute, Plymouth University, UK School of Psychology, Plymouth University, UK

Susan Denham is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, in the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth. Her research is aimed at understanding auditory perception using experimental investigations and neurocomputational modelling with a view towards to identifying principles of biological computation which can be used in the development of novel brain-inspired technologies. She was founding director of the Cognition Institute at the University of Plymouth, a cross-faculty grouping of researchers interested in multidisciplinary research collaboration. She currently coordinates the CogNovo programme.