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Professor Scott Brown is a Professor in the School of Science, College of Engineering, Science and Environment, at the University of Newcastle, Australia, specialising in cognitive science and mathematical psychology. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Bachelor of Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science, a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Psychology, and a PhD in Psychology in 2002, all from the University of Newcastle. After completing his PhD, he held an Australian Research Council Research Fellowship from 2005 to 2006 and a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship from 2006 to 2010. He served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine for four years before returning to the University of Newcastle. There, he was supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship from 2008 to 2013 and additional research-only positions until 2016. Brown has received the New Investigator Award from the Society for Mathematical Psychology in 2008 and from the American Psychological Association Division of Experimental Psychology in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Society for Mathematical Psychology since 2015 and the Psychonomic Society since 2012. In 2020, he was named the top Australian cognitive scientist and Field Leader in Cognitive Science by The Australian's Research magazine for the highest citations in top journals over five years.