Fintan Nagle- Work and Research Interests

About Me

As you're here I suppose I might as well tell you

I started out by doing a Computer Science degree at the University of York (Old York, not New). Then I became interested in mixing computer science and biology and did a Natural Computation MSc at my alma mater. Finally I decided to go completely native and started a 4-year MRes/PhD at UCL CoMPLEX (the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology).

My main scientific interests outside my formal academic work (extra-curricular curricular interests) are

Emergence
Non-standard computation
Computable epistemology

My main non-academic (totally extra-curricular) interests are

Good music, including classic rock, psychedelia, British Isles folk-rock and metal
Playing the above on guitar and watching it live
Reading, especially SF and non-cliched fantasy
Reddit.

You can contact me on fintan.nagle.10@ucl.ac.uk.

"The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) .

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958)