Allan Snyder recently received the world's 'foremost prize in communications and information technology', the Marconi International Prize, in New York City.He has featured as one of Australia's ten most creative minds in The Bulletin/Newsweek, which described him as 'agile, playful, audacious, inventive, [he] leaps across boundaries, making unexpected connections'.His scientific discoveries are the subject of media attention worldwide and the recent BBC documentary 'Fragments of Genius'. He writes for the popular press and appears on radio and television.He is a graduate of MIT, Harvard and University College London, and was on the faculty of Yale Medical School. He is Director of the Centre for the Mind, a joint venture of the Australian National University and the University of Sydney.Currently he is researching championship and ways to enhance creative thinking. Further information may be found at www.centreforthemind.com.
