Natalia Janson

Natalia Janson

Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University

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Loughborough, United Kingdom
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About Natalia

I am a…

Atheist, Educator/Teacher, Scientist

Bio

Dr. Natalia Janson is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in Loughborough University. She graduated from Saratov State University (Russia) and got her PhD from the same University for the work on building models of spontaneously evolving systems from experimental data. She has more than 20 years of experience of research in non-linear dynamics and its applications in biology and physics, and is a co-author of a book “Synchronization: from Simple to Complex”. Her current research is focused on mathematics of cognitive processes.

I'm passionate about

Cognition and its mathematical description.

An idea worth spreading

How to resolve the mind-body problem with mathematics.

Areas of expertise

mathematics, modelling of cognitive processes

The TED story

In 2016 I gave a TEDx talk "Can we resolve the mind-body problem with mathematics?". For several years before that I have been watching a lot of TED and TEDx videos on all sorts of topics.