Dr Stuart Wilson

School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience

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s.p.wilson@Sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1913

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Dr Stuart Wilson
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Stuart studied Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield (2006) and Bioinformatics & Neuroinformatics at the University of Edinburgh (2007) before completing a PhD in Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield (2011). He was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield in 2012, and as a Senior Lecturer in 2020. Stuart joined the Department of Computer Science in 2023.

Research interests

Stuart is interested in how self-organisation and natural selection interact to shape complex systems, including brains. He explores this interaction through computational neuroscience modelling, and by connecting artificial neural networks to the physical world through robotics.

Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Wilson SP (2018) Self-organization Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson SP & Moore C (2016) S1 Somatotopic Maps, Scholarpedia of Touch (pp. 565-576). Atlantis Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Prescott AJ, Mitchinson B, Lepora NF, Wilson SP, Anderson SR, Porrill J, Dean P, Fox CW, Pearson MJ, Sullivan JC & Pipe AG (2015) The robot vibrissal system: Understanding mammalian sensorimotor co-ordination through biomimetics In Krieger P & Groh A (Ed.), Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System (pp. 213-240). New York: Springer. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wilson SP, Verschure PFMJ, Mura A & Prescott A (2015) Preface In Wilson S, Verschure P, Mura A & Prescott A (Ed.), 4th International Conference, Living Machines 2015, Barcelona, Spain, July 28 - 31, 2015, Proceedings (pp. v-vi). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

Preprints

Research group

Complex Systems Modelling research group

Affiliated member of the Machine Learning research group