Robert Chis-Ciure

Robert Chis-Ciure is a European Research Council (ERC) fellow in Anil Seth’s lab at the University of Sussex and the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Previously, he was a Fulbright research fellow at NYU under David Chalmers, a Tatiana Foundation research fellow in Georg Northoff’s lab, and a Fulbright Ph.D. student in Giulio Tononi’s lab, where he investigated consciousness at the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience, and computational modelling. In his free time, he chairs meetings for Karl Friston’s Theoretical Neurobiology Group at the Active Inference Institute and undertakes various projects as an affiliated researcher at the Wolfram Institute. At Sussex, his research centres on formalised notions of emergence and computational neurophenomenology. He and his colleagues employ hybrid predictive-coding and active-inference formalisms to model diverse phenomenal properties of experience and validate them experimentally. This work contributes to a new methodological paradigm called Phenomenomics aimed at comprehensively characterising the “inner worlds” of humans and, ultimately, other observers by leveraging AI/ML techniques on large-scale datasets.