Emmanuel Pothos

Professor Emmanuel Pothos is a distinguished academic at City, University of London, specializing in cognitive psychology and quantum probability theory. He studied physics at Imperial College (awarded the Stanley Raimes Memorial Prize in Mathematics) and earned a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford. His research bridges computational frameworks like quantum theory, Bayesian methods, and information theory to model human cognition, focusing on categorization, decision-making, learning, and attentional biases in health psychology.