Giulio Tononi

Italian neuroscientist and psychiatrist (born 1960)

Giulio Tononi (Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo toˈnoːni]) is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is best known for his Integrated Information Theory (IIT), a mathematical theory of consciousness, which he proposed in 2004.