- Alasdair Smith
Alasdair Smith is currently a professor of economics and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex. He is a noted international economist whose studies (often developed in concert with fellow economist Tony Venables) have been used by the European Union. Smith was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University.
- Aaron Sloman
Aaron Sloman is a philosopher and researcher on artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He is the author of several papers on philosophy, epistemology and artificial intelligence. He held the Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, and before that a chair with the same title at the University of Sussex. He is now working with biologist Jackie Chappell on the evolution of intelligence.
- Inman Harvey
Inman Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in CSAI at the University of Sussex. His research interests largely centre on the development of artificial evolution as an approach to the design of complex systems. Application domains of interest include evolutionary robotics, evolvable hardware, molecules for pharmaceutical purposes. A theoretical topic in evolution is Neutral Networks, the study of pathways of neutral mutations through sequence space, …
- Harold Kroto
Professor Kroto is a distinguished scientist, humanist and designer born in Cambridgeshire to parents who moved to the UK from Germany in the late 1930s. His father was interned during World War II and he and his mother moved to Bolton in 1940. Professor Kroto's father was an engineer, who in 1955 established his own balloon-making factory.
- Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw (born at Driffield, Yorkshire, on June 30, 1947) has been professor of international relations and politics at the University of Sussex since 1995. Best known for his sociological work on war, genocide and global politics, his work has also had a consistent political content. In his Marxist period in the 1970s, Shaw published Marxism versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading (1974) and Marxism and Social Science: The Roots of Social Science (1975).
- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a London-born author and political scientist specializing in interdisciplinary security studies. He teaches International Relations at the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, where he is currently engaged in Doctoral research on European imperial genocides from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
- Matthew Hennessy
Matthew Hennessy is a British computer scientist who has contributed especially to language semantics. Hennessy is Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, England. His research interests are in the area of the semantic foundations of programming and specification languages, particularly involving distributed computing, including mobile computing. He also has an interest in verification tools.
- John Gaventa
John Gaventa has worked for more than 25 years in both northern and southern contexts on issues of citizen participation, power, participatory research and education methodologies and participatory governance. He is interested in linking participation to policies and programs of larger institutions as well as in training and capacity building for strengthening civil society.
- Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley was the "Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry" and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene ("buckyballs") (with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex).
- Phil Husbands
Phil Husbands is a professor of Computer science and Artificial intelligence at the University of Sussex in Brighton near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove. His research interests are in long-term investigation of artificial evolution of nervous systems for robots, …
- Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan CBE (born June 21, 1948) is a British novelist.
- David Lewis
David Lewis, a French born neuropsychologist, is currently director of research at The Mind Lab. He specialises in studies of brain function under real world conditions. He has a first class honours degree in psychology and biology from the University of Westminster and a doctorate from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex, where he lectured in clinical psychology and psychopathology before setting up his own research organisation.
- John Gribbin
John R. Gribbin (b. 1946) is a British science writer and a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.
- Robert Curl
Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. (born August 23, 1933) the son of a Methodist Minister is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene (with the late Richard Smalley, also of Rice University, and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex). Born in Alice, Texas, United States, Curl received a B.A. from Rice University in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, …
- Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, England. He most recently attracted attention for his academic criticism of the Psychological nativism movement within Psycholinguistics represented by academics such as Noam Chomsky, Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker. Sampson is particularly critical of Pinker's 1994 book "The Language Instinct", …
- Hilary Benn
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (November 26, 1953) is a British Labour politician, currently serving as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Leeds Central. In October 2006 Benn announced he was running for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, eventually coming fourth behind Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas.
- Andy Clark
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Professor Clark’s papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension.
- Larry Trask
Robert Lawrence "Larry" Trask (November 10, 1944 - March 27, 2004) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on Basque language and historical linguistics. Born in upstate New York, USA, he initially studied chemistry in his home country, but after a brief stint in the Peace Corps he took an interest in linguistics. He received his PhD in linguistics from the University of London, …
- Gerald Gazdar
Gerald Gazdar (born February 24, 1950) is a linguist and computer scientist. He graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1970, and completed his master's degree in 1972 at the University of Reading, where he also received his PhD in 1976. He became a lecturer at the University of Sussex in 1975, and became Professor of Computational Linguistics there in 1985. He retired in 2002. Along with his colleagues Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum and Ivan Sag, …
- Christopher Freeman
Christopher Freeman is an English economist, the founder and first director of SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, and one of the most eminent modern Kondratieff wave/business cycle theorists and neo-Schumpeterians. Freeman is Professor emeritus of Science Policy at the University of Sussex, England. 1966-1982 he was Director of SPRU and RM Phillips Professor of Science Policy. His main areas are technical change in economic theory, …
- John D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974.
- David Harper
David George Charles Harper is the senior lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the Human Sciences Department at the University of Sussex, England. Harper was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. He earned his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. In addition to lecturing, he researches the behavioural ecology of passerine birds.
- Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (born 7 May 1921) is a British historian, one of the most respected historians who has written on the Victorian era. In particular, his trilogy, "Victorian People", "Victorian Cities" and "Victorian things" made a lasting mark on how historians view the nineteenth century. He was made a life peer in 1976. He was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire on 7 May 1921. He was educated at Keighley Grammar School, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA 1941), …
- Calestous Juma
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment.
- David Lepper
David Lepper (born 15 September 1945, Richmond) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Labour Co-operative member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion since 1997.
- Richard Coates
Richard Coates was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex, but is now at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He is honorary director of the English Place-Name Society. He is Editor of the Survey of English Place-Names for Hampshire, and is one of the only people to brave an interpretation of the meaning of Londinium in recent years.
- Martin Butler
Martin Butler (born in 1960, in Romsey, Hampshire, England) is a musician and composer of classical music. He studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University, USA, where he was resident until 1987, and in 1985 he received the Master of Fine Arts. In 1988 he was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship which enabled him to spend several weeks at Tempo Reale, …
- Keith Bezanson
Keith Bezanson has devoted his entire career to international development. During the mid-1960s he worked as a secondary school teacher in Nigeria, and subsequently lectured and directed a national research program in Ghana.
- Peter Saunders
Peter Saunders is an Australian social researcher (not to be confused with left wing social researcher of the same name). He is professor emeritus at the Centre for Independent Studies and Adjunct Professor at the Australian Graduate School of Management. He was previously of University of Sussex in England.
- Drew Westen
Drew Westen is Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, an M.A. in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex (England), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, where he taught introductory psychology for several years.
- Gabriel Josipovici
Gabriel David Josipovici (born October 8, 1940) is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright. He was born in Nice, France, of Sephardic parents. He was educated in Egypt and then at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, winning the Somerset Maugham Prize for his fiction in 1975. He taught at the University of Sussex at Brighton from 1963 until 1998, where he is Research Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities.
- Maggie Boden
Dr. Maggie Boden, OBE, is a prolific, combinative researcher in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Philosophy, Cognitive and Computer Science. Currently Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, Dr. Boden was the founding-Dean of the university's School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS), precursor of the university's current Department of Informatics.
- Dudley Seers
Sir Dudley Seers (1920-1983) was a British economist who specialised in development economics. After his military service he taught at Oxford and then worked for various UN institutions. He was the director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex from 1967 till 1972.
- Andrew R. Liddle
Andrew R. Liddle (born 9th June 1965) is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Sussex. Publications include over 150 papers and the books: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology, 2nd edition ISBN 0-470-84835-9 (pbk), 0-470-84834-0 (hbk), Cosmological Inflation and Large Scale Structure, ISBN 0-521-57598-2 (pbk), 0-521-66022-X (hbk),
- John Cornforth
Sir John Warcup 'Kappa' Cornforth FRS (born 7 September 1917), is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. He has been profoundly deaf since his teens. Cornforth was born in Sydney, Australia, educated at Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University (from 16 years of age) where he met his wife Rita Harradence.
- Sam Younger
Sam Younger is the chairman of the United Kingdom Electoral Commission. He was previously managing director of the BBC World Service from 1994 to 1998, and chief executive of the British Red Cross from 1999 to 2001. He is also chair of the governing body of the University of Sussex and chairman of the Board of QAA. Sam is the son of Kenneth Younger, a Labour Minister under Clement Attlee.
- Marie Jahoda
Marie Jahoda (January 26 1907 - April 28 2001) was a British social psychologist of Austrian descent. Jahoda was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austria where oppression was rampant. This was a major influence on her life. In 1928 she earned her teaching diploma from the Pedagogical Academy of Vienna, and in 1933 earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Vienna.
- Brian Bates
Brian Bates is England's foremost authority on Anglo Saxon Druidry, shamanism and mysteries. He has written several books on the subject. He is an academic, based in the South East of the country, and is a professor at the University of Brighton, and former chairman of Psychology at the University of Sussex.
- Josh Bongard
Josh Bongard received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University from 2003 to 2006. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont.
- Alana Lentin
Dr Alana Lentin, born 16 March 1973, is a political sociologist and social theorist and works on the critical theorisation of race, racism and anti-racism and the contemporary politics of (im)migration and collective action for migrants' rights. She is currently is a Lecturer in Sociology (Social Theory and Political sociology) at the University of Sussex, UK.