Julia Simner

Julia Simner directs the Multisense Lab at the University of Sussex, where she is Professor of Neuropsychology. She previously taught at the University of Edinburgh, and studied at Toronto, Sussex, Paris and Oxford, and her research has long been internationally acclaimed. in 2025 she had an episode of BBC R4's A Life Scientific devoted to her. A team on which she is Lead Scientist won this year's Longitude Prize for their revolutionary AI-powered glasses for dementia sufferers, CrossSense, which awards them £1million in funding to bring the product to market.