Dr Julia Simner

Julia Simner is a professor of neuropsychology specialising in multisensory research. Her education and career have taken her to the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Oxford, Toronto, Edinburgh and Sussex, and she currently runs the MULTISENSE lab at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on the psychological and neuroscientific bases of sensory differences, and has been published in well-regarded science journals including ‘Brain’ and ‘Nature’, and in over 100 newspaper and media articles worldwide. She is the Science Officer for the UK Synaesthesia Association, and the author of several books (The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia; Synaesthesia: A Very Short Introduction).