Christopher L. Buckley graduated with a First Class Master of Physics from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and then went on to study for an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex in 2001. After several year's in the computer games industry, he returned to academia and completed his doctoral studies in cognitive robotics at the University of Southampton in 2008. Following a postdoctoral position at the Riken Brain Science Institute in Tokyo, he returned to the University of Sussex as a lecturer in neural computation in 2014 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2018 and to Professor of Neural Computation in 2022.