Roger Carpenter

Roger Carpenter is Professor of Oculomotor Physiology in the University of Cambridge, and was for many years Director of Medical Studies at his college, Gonville and Caius.  He has won several awards for teaching, most notably a national HEFCE award of £50,000 in 2000.  His research has increasingly focused on saccades: in the complex visual world we live in, each saccade we make is in effect a decision to look at one thing rather than another, and the study of saccades has provided much insight into the mechanisms of neural decision-making, as well as providing an important clinical tool for neurological diagnosis and assessment. Before it began taking up too much time, he was founder and artistic director of the Susato Consort and Susato Baroque Ensemble, and as a singer was a bass soloist in lieder, oratorio and opera – it was on the stage that he met his wife Christine.  But now he is content with playing Bach and Mozart on the piano: not tremendously well, but getting better. 
Website: www.cudos.ac.uk/roger

Benjamin Reddi

Benjamin Reddi is a critical care specialist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, working in a unit that sees a particularly large number of neurology cases. Before emigrating to Australia he trained at Cambridge University and undertook internal medicine training at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham.

Whilst publishing primarily in the field of the neurobiology of decision making, he has also published work on cardiovascular physiology and continues to research vascular physiology at the University of Adelaide.

Benjamin is also involved in teaching both neurophysiology and general physiology to doctors wishing to specialise in the fields of anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.