This is a mostly academic biography, so I'll spare you tales of early life and loves.
I trained as a philosopher at the University of Warwick and at the University of Wisconsin at Madison under the inspiring but somewhat terrifying supervision of David Miller. I then lapsed into empirical work by getting an M.Sc. and then a Ph.D in cognitive science and natural language processing at Edinburgh University's late, great, Centre for Cognitive Science, where my curious views about neural networks and semantic memory were indulged by Richard Shillcock and David Willshaw.
Just about then I met J. J. Bryson. I can't generate a adequate short description of all the things she gets up to so you'd better read her web pages. Dr. B. had a Ph.D. to finish at M.I.T. so I took a visiting fellowship in Daniel Dennett's Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts. But just as a promising interdisciplinary career in the cognitive sciences beckoned, something unexpected happened. Gary King tempted me into political science by offering incredible intellectual company at CBRSS (the precursor to IQSS with smaller whiteboards). I also got to work on an awesome cherrywood desk. Although I went on to work at the Weatherhead Center with Iain Johnston and Yoshiko Herrera I managed to keep the furniture.
Dr. B. got a job at Bath and I went to work with Ken Benoit at Trinity College, Dublin. I also helped run Wordmap, an enterprise software company. I worked mainly on the EU 5th framework project Parmenides where I learnt a lot. Most importantly, how to pronounce it. Apparently you stress the 'i'.
Most recently I've been a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham in the Methods and Data Institute in the School of Politics and International Relations with Cees van der Eijk. At Nottingham I spent a lot of time with the fine folk at the Human Rights Law Centre, working on the International Criminal Court's Legal Tools project.
But fun as all this postdoc-ing was, I needed to get a proper job. So I did, in the Department of Political Science at the University of Maastricht. Dr. B. and I are now doing our part keeping the train companies of europe in business.