Ben is neurologist and neuroscientist. He undertook his clinical training in hospitals in Manchester, London and Cambridge, and completed his specialist training as a consultant neurologist in 2012. He now holds an honorary contract at Addenbrookes Hospital. He did doctoral research training at UCL in the lab of Ray Dolan and Karl Friston (2002-2007), where he continued as an honorary lecturer until 2012, until being awarded a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship based at the Computational and Biological Learning Lab (CBL)