In May of 2023 I began as ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Leading up to this, I did a PhD in Philosophy at Florida State University, working with Al Mele on consciousness and action.

I then took a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. While at Oxford, I was subsequently a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, and a Wellcome Trust Fellow. And I published my first book, Consciousness and Moral Status, with Routledge.

I left Oxford to become Assistant Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and in 2020 I became Associate Professor at Carleton.

Simultaneously, I began a stint at the University of Barcelona, where from 2018-2023 I was the PI on an ERC funded project, Rethinking Conscious Agency.

My current research, funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation, concerns the nature of creative cognition.

My research uses the methods of philosophy, and (where appropriate) cognitive science, and seeks to reinvigorate the conceptual foundations of agency, to map the phenomenology of agency onto the structure and function of action control capacities, and to understand the nature and significance of creative agency.

An important part of this research involves engagement with the sciences of the mind (e.g., psychology, sport psychology, cognitive and motor neuroscience) in order to understand the psychological constitution of agency, and the ways that sophisticated behavior is controlled.