Thom Scott-Phillips

(Very) short bio:

1994-1998, MMath at the University of Sussex

1998-2004, split between teaching English as a Foreign Language (in Bolivia, Italy and the UK) and a short career in e-learning, designing and writing online business training courses

2004-2005, MSc. in the Evolution of Language and Cognition, University of Edinburgh

2005-present, PhD. in the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, University of Edinburgh; thesis title something like "The role of adaptation in language evolution"