Semir Zeki is the Professor of Neuroesthetics at University College London, U.K. He specializes in studying the primate visual brain and the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs. He has received the Golden Brain Award (1985), Award in Electronic Imaging (2002), King Faisal International Prize in Biology (2004), Erasmus Medal (Academia Europeae, 2008), Aristotle Gold Medal (2011) and Rome Prize (Atena Onlus, 2012). He has lectured widely across the world giving over 60 named lectures, published three books, and held an exhibition of his own art work at the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Milan in 2011