Michael Skinner

 was an associate researcher at the Lashley Institute.

One of his duties was to test Imogen Quaye's brain development after surgery had been done on Imogen's brain to improve her brain capacity.

When Skinner was a boy, he was beaten by his father. Imogen used Skinner's trauma to telepathically induce him to commit suicide. Skinner took an overdose of sleeping pills. (PROSE: Artificial Intelligence)