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Andy Skinner

3rd Year Postgraduate
Supervisor : Dr Chris Benton

telephone: +44 (0)117 92 88494 email: andy.skinner@bristol.ac.uk

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Biographical details

I left school at 16 and joined BT’s research and development department as an apprentice lab technician. After finishing my apprenticeship and working in a lab for a few years I went to study Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. When I graduated I returned to BT to work on the development of video compression technologies, and designed and ran one of the first commercial grade MPEG encoding facilities. I subsequently managed development projects that ranged from educational applications for schools, to user interfaces for groupworking products, and went on to lead a consultancy group specialising in technologies for managing enterprise scale web sites. I left BT to pursue my interest in psychology, and in 2004 began a degree in Experimental Psychology at Bristol. I graduated in 2007 and stayed at Bristol to start a PhD with Dr Chris Benton. I’m a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.


Research interests

I’m interested in the way we represent and process information about faces. My undergraduate project used an adaptation paradigm to investigate the way we encode shape and texture information for faces. My current work also uses adaptation techniques, this time to explore how we represent and process facial expressions.

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