Nicholas Wright

Biography

I apply neuroscientific and behavioural insights to decision-making in international confrontations, in ways practically applicable to policy. I focus on real-world cases such as managing China-U.S. escalation scenarios. I am a non-resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC) in addition to my role at Birmingham. Previously I was a research fellow in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London and a visiting fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. I also worked in internal medicine and then in clinical neurology in Oxford and London. I am a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK). I have published original neuroscience research papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the Journal of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology, Neuron and a variety of other journals. I have published in general publications such as the Atlantic or National Interest. My work has been featured in newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph, in Nature, and I have appeared on the BBC and CNN.

Research Interest

Cooperation and Security