Scott Kelso holds the Glenwood and Martha Creech Eminent Scholar Chair in Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton where he is also Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Biological Sciences and Biomedical Sciences. Kelso is Emeritus Professor of Computational Neuroscience at The University of Ulster’s Intelligent Systems Research Centre. In 1985 Kelso served as the Founding Director of FAU’s Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences where he also led an NIH-funded National Training Program in this new transdisciplinary field. Using a combination of brain imaging, behavioral methods, and computational modeling his research focuses on how people and brains are coordinated on multiple levels and for multiple functions, from cells to cognition and social behavior. His approach to understanding coordination in living things is grounded in the physical concepts of self-organization and the mathematical tools of nonlinear dynamical systems, a theoretical and empirical framework that has ushered in the science of coordination, Coordination Dynamics. Kelso was educated at Foyle College in L’Derry, N. Ireland and later at Universities in Belfast, Calgary and Madison, Wisconsin where he received both MSc (1973) and PhD degrees (1975). Prior to FAU, Kelso was Senior Research Scientist at Yale University’s Haskins Laboratories and Professor of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of Connecticut.