Dr. Pedro Mediano is a Lecturer in Computing at Imperial College London's Department of Computing (Faculty of Engineering). His research focuses on complex systems, information theory, and their applications in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. He is affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Network and leads interdisciplinary projects exploring synergistic interactions in brain dynamics, psychedelic neurodynamics, and causal emergence. Key research areas include quantifying high-order interactions in complex systems, developing information-theoretic tools for analyzing neural data, and modeling consciousness through integrated information theory. Mediano has pioneered frameworks like the Shannon invariants for scalable information decomposition and developed software tools such as THOI for analyzing higher-order interactions. Recent work examines how psychedelics alter brain entropy, the role of metastability in cognitive processes, and the computational principles underlying causal emergence in machine learning models. His studies integrate mathematical rigor with empirical neuroscience, bridging theoretical and applied domains. Mediano has collaborated on whole-brain models of psychedelic-induced neural complexity and explored the interplay between oxygen metabolism and brain evolution. He holds affiliations with Imperial's AI Network and regularly publishes in top journals across computational neuroscience and complexity science. Current projects include developing open-source tools for information decomposition and investigating the neural correlates of consciousness under altered states.









