I am a neuroscientist based in Melbourne, Australia, and the author of The Future Loves You: The Neuroscientific Case for Abolishing Death. 

 

I am currently a Research Fellow at Monash University - working with the Monash Neuroscience of Consciousness laboratory - where I investigate novel methods for characterising the nature of conscious experiences to aid in the ongoing quest to understand the neural basis of consciousness. Before that, I obtained my PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2019, where I researched the mechanisms by which genetic and environmental factors affect cognition in healthy and diseased brains. I have published widely across the field of cognitive neuroscience, from the decline, preservation and rescue of cognitive function at different stages of the lifespan, through to characterising people's conscious experience of colour.

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As an author, I describe how recent neuroscientific advances may enable the suspension of death through brain preservation, potentially offering the dying the chance of future revival (while also exploring the medical, neuroscientific, and philosophical background required to understand this seemingly absurd claim).