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Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley. Using molecular genetics, he studied the development of the nervous system at University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University before joining the faculty of Trinity College Dublin as EMBO Young Investigator.

Currently Dr. Kevin Mitchell studies the genetics of brain wiring and its relevance to variation in human faculties, psychiatric disease and perceptual conditions like synaesthesia. His research focuses on the biology of agency and the nature of genetic and neural information. He is the author of “INNATE – How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are” (Princeton University Press, 2018) and “FREE AGENTS - How Evolution Gave us Free Will” (Princeton University Press, 2023). He also writes the Wiring the Brain blog and is on Twitter @WiringtheBrain.