Alan Radley is a renowned author, inventor, and futurist specialized in optics, perspective, and the visual dimensions of art, science, culture, and technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from UCL, an MBA from The Open University Business School, and a Master's degree in Spacecraft Technology and Satellite Communications from UCL. Alan is the Scientific Director and Founder of the Perspective Research Centre (PRC), which is dedicated to research and education in perspective and the visual dimensions of various fields. He is considered a generalist, a Renaissance man, and a universalist since his knowledge spans across multiple disciplines to solve specific problems.

Alan has authored six handbooks on computing and served on the scientific committees for 12 international conferences for the International Association of Interactive Communication (AInCI). He has a vast art/science library on perspective, optics, and vision, including one of the world's largest libraries on Leonardo da Vinci. He has been a guest speaker on different platforms and received several awards throughout his career, including being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2020.

Alan has patented several inventions, including the Hologram Mirror and the Personal Virtual/Augmented Reality. He has also created innovative cameras, new imaging formats, hypergrams, and artificial rainbows/holograms and illusionistic displays. His active fields of interest include optics, perspective, and new media, photograph and movie/film innovation, artificial, situated and distributed intelligence, world brain/distributed knowledge systems/hyper-networks, and cryptography.

In summary, Alan Radley is a renowned author, inventor, and futurist with expertise in optics, perspective, and the visual dimensions of art, science, culture, and technology. As the Scientific Director and Founder of the Perspective Research Centre, he has dedicated his career to researching and educating in these fields.