Seán trained at Trinity College Dublin, King’s College London and New York University in Mathematics, Psychiatry and Neuroscience research. He has developed methods for computational modelling and integration of brain data across scales, and species. This work has led to discoveries of principles of cortical receptor organisation and multi-scale computational models of cognitive functions including working memory and conscious perception. Since 2022, he leads the Cognition, Anatomy and Neural Networks (CANN) research group at the University of Bristol. The CANN lab aims to understand how the brain’s anatomy shapes our conscious experience and cognition, and how differences in anatomy across species and across people may lead to different experiences and cognitive abilities. By understanding these mechanisms, we aim to contribute to discovery neuroscience and psychiatry.