Lee de-Wit

Lee studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, and then an ESRC Masters (with Charles Fernyhough) and PhD (with David Milner FRS and Robert Kentridge) at Durham University. Lee then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leuven working on the Gestalt Revision program of Johan Wagemans. Lee has also spent time as a visiting researcher with Geraint Rees at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL), Glyn Humphreys at the University of Oxford, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry at the University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. In addition to teaching at PACE, Lee is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, and a Teaching Fellow at University College London.

Lee has experience teaching on a wide range of courses at Durham University, the University of Leuven, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Oxford. Lee has also developed a number of outreach projects, including the Durham Café Scientifique, and the Bristol Politics Café. He has also recently written a popular science book exploring the psychology of voting called What’s Your Bias: The Surprising Science of Why We Vote the Way We Do with Elliot and Thompson.