Summary
Anna Sales is a Chief Product Manager and computational neuroscientist with nine years' experience translating neural models into deployed intelligent systems. She leads product strategy at Stanhope AI after commercialising Active Inference algorithms for autonomous machines and previously partnered with software engineers and NHS clinicians to build novel diagnostic tools during a postdoc at the University of Bristol. Trained in physics and neuroscience (PhD, University of Bristol; MS Imperial College), she combines in‑vivo electrophysiology, behavioural modelling and experiment design with hands-on MATLAB, C and Python work. Her background includes DV‑cleared analytical roles for UK defence and policy experience in Parliament, giving her uncommon expertise in security, regulation and stakeholder navigation for sensitive technologies. Known for bridging rigorous academic methods with pragmatic productisation, she focuses on making principled models operationally useful.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of Oxford
Master of Science - MS, Physics, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Physics, Distinction at Imperial College London
Master of Arts - MA, War Studies: Science and Security, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, War Studies: Science and Security, Distinction at King's College London
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at University of Bristol