Christopher James

Professor James is a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist researching techniques for use in brain and behaviour analysis. His work spans the development of signal processing techniques applied to human brain activity, to behaviour analysis in humans and other model organisms. He has published over 170 papers in varied biomedical engineering journals and refereed conferences and has regular interaction with the press through newspaper articles, opinion pieces, radio interviews and TV programmes. In November 2012 he gave the prestigious IET Wheatstone Lecture on Brain-to-brain Communication in Chennai, India. In 2013 he was awarded the IEEE MGA Achievement Award and in 2012 the IET Sir Monty Finniston Medal. He is founding editor-in-chief of the IET Healthcare Technology Letters journal, founder and CEO of EMbody Biosignals Ltd. (www.embody-biosignals.co.uk), as well as founding director of Augmented Insights Ltd. (www.augmentedinsights.co.uk), a spinout from the University of Warwick creating pattern recognition algorithms extracting behavior information from health data.