Anil Seth is a British neuroscientist and Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. Born in Oxford in 1972, he earned a BA in natural science from King's College, Cambridge, and later a PhD in computer science from the University of Sussex. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a postdoctoral and associate fellow at The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California, from 2001 to 2006.