Thomas Hills
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Dr. Thomas Hills is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He specializes in cognitive science, focusing on search behavior and the trade-off between exploration and exploitation in diverse domains such as memory, decision-making, and creativity. His work integrates experiments, big data, network science, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and mathematical models to explore how humans navigate and adapt to complex information environments. Dr. Hills is the author of Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain (MIT Press) and the forthcoming Behavioral Network Science: Language, Mind, and Society (Cambridge University Press). He is the Director of the Behavioural and Data Science MSc program and previously directed the Bridges-Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. He collaborates globally and co-leads the Collective Decision Making and Culture Lab.
