Thomas Parr

Thomas Parr is a theoretical neurobiologist and practising physician. He completed his undergraduate medical studies and PhD at University College London, where he worked with Professor Karl Friston at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. He authored the first comprehensive textbook Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior (co-written with Giovanni Pezzulo and Karl J. Friston) on Active Inference—an approach to understanding brain and behaviour from first principles. Thomas is interested in how our brains model our environments, and how these models become dysfunctional in neurological disease. He currently works as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurology at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

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