Stephen Fleming

Group Leader, Metacognition and Computational Psychiatry Group, Max Planck UCL Centre, London

Steve Fleming is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Royal Society/Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL, where he leads the Metacognition Group. He is a Group Leader at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Principal Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging. He completed a BA in Psychology with Physiology at the University of Oxford in 2006, a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL in 2011, and a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral fellowship at NYU in 2015. His group’s research focuses on understanding the relationship between objective measures (behaviour and brain activity) and subjective experience. Steve’s research on metacognition has been recognised by several early career awards including the British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology (2016), a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology (2018), and the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal (2019). He was a previous Executive Director of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (2014-2020) and is on the editorial board of Perspectives on Psychological Science and Mind and Language. He writes widely for a general audience, including articles for Aeon, New Scientist and Scientific American, and is the author of Know Thyself (2021), a trade book on the science of metacognition.

Email: stephen.fleming@ucl.ac.uk
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