Professor Terry Bossomaier graduated in Natural Sciences from Clare College, Cambridge and completed a PhD in chemical physics at the University of East Anglia. After working for five years in the photographic industry as an image physicist, he took up a research fellowship at the ANU, studying vision and computer science, before moving to Charles Sturt University as professor of computer systems. His work has made significant contributions across different fields: vision, notably the information processing structure of the retina; computer science, especially parallel computation; cognitive neuroscience, including creativity and expertise; and statistical physics. His work has resulted in keynote addresses in South Africa, Japan and Hong Kong. He has received 8 individual grants and several large, collaborative infrastructure grants from the Australian Research Council. He was also a Chief Investigator on the Cooperative Research Centre in Spatial Information. He has published four books and edited a further two. His papers feature leading journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature