Prof Matthew Cobb – Out Of Your Head, Out Of Your Mind

Matthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester, where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour and the history of science. His books include The Egg & Sperm Race and acclaimed accounts of the French Resistance during the Second World War and the liberation of Paris in 1944.

His latest book, The Idea of the Brain, seeks to illuminate our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain.