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TypewriterThere have been many authors who have contributed to the work of the Scientific and Medical Network, or who's work has been reviewed by our review team.

An Introduction to Neural Networks

Gurney, Kevin, Professor PhD MSc

Professor Kevin Gurney, MSc, PhD is co-leader of the Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, where he focuses on computational modeling but interacts with, and supports, experimental work in human psychophysics, neuroscience and robotics. One of the hallmarks of his research is building models at different levels of description: from individual conductance-based neurons, […]

The Concise NHS Handbook 2013/14

Davies, Peter, Dr. PhD

Dr. Peter Davies MA, PhD graduated in engineering from Cambridge University in 1973 and did his PhD in biomedical engineering at McGill University in Canada. He then worked as a computer systems analyst before switching career to pursue an interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). In 1987, he was invited […]

Chaos, Information Processing and Paradoxical Games: The Legacy of John S Nicolis

Basios, Vasilieios, Dr. PhD

Dr. Vasileios Basios PhD spent his formative years working within the team of Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine at the Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry at the University of Brussels. Then after a short research post in the Belgian Royal Meteorological Service he became a senior researcher at the Physics Department […]

Exploring God-Talk: Using Language in Religion (Exploring Faith - Theology for Life)

Astley, Jeff, Professor, PhD

Professor Jeff Astley has been an honorary lecturer in the University of Durham since 1981, Honorary Professorial Fellow in Practical Theology and Christian Education since 1997, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion since 2012. He read Natural Sciences (specializing in the biological sciences) and then Theology at […]

Tales from The Afterlife

Bowie, Fiona, Dr, DPhil

Dr. Fiona Bowie, DPhil (Social Anthropology) Oxford is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College, London. She is also a Member of Wolfson College Oxford and Founder of the Afterlife Research Centre. Fiona studied anthropology at the English universities of Durham and Oxford, […]

Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity)

Carleton Paget, James, Dr.

James Carleton Paget  is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse. He has written widely on matters to do with Christian origins, and the relationship of ancient Christianity to Judaism, and recently co-edited Vol. 1 of the first volume of The […]

Universe or Multiverse?

Carr, Bernard, Emeritus Professor

Professor Bernard Carr  is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London. He read mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied for his doctorate under Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected […]

The Law of Syntropy

di Corpo, Ulisse, PhD

Dr. Ulisse di Corpo  holds degrees in experimental psychology and a PhD in statistics and social research. He works in the field of social research and provides methodological support and software tools to researchers. In 1977 he developed the vital needs theory, which was the subject of his thesis in […]

Dr Peter Fenwick - Conciousness and Dying

Fenwick, Peter, Dr.

Dr. Peter Brooke Cadogan Fenwick – President of the Scientific and Medical Network – is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Natural Science. He obtained his clinical experience at St Thomas’ Hospital Career Peter Fenwick was a senior lecturer at King’s College, London, where he worked as […]