David Eagleman
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Eagleman speaking at the UP Conference, 2011
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| Born | David Morris Egelman April 25, 1971 (age 46) Albuquerque, New Mexico, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, Salk Institute |
| Known for | Time perception, brain plasticity, synesthesia, neurolaw. PBS television series: The Brain with David Eagleman. Books: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, Incognito, The Brain: The Story of You |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Science Educator of the Year – Society for Neuroscience |
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David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American writer and neuroscientist, serving as an adjunct associate professor at Stanford University in the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. He also independently serves as the director of the Center for Science and Law. He is known for his work on brain plasticity,time perception,synesthesia, and neurolaw. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a council member in the World Economic Forum, and a New York Times bestselling author published in 28 languages. He is the writer and presenter of the international six-hour television series, The Brain with David Eagleman.
Eagleman was born in New Mexico to Arthur and Cirel Egelman, a physician and biology teacher, respectively. An early experience of falling from a roof raised his interest in understanding the neural basis of time perception. He attended the Albuquerque Academy for high school. As an undergraduate at Rice University, he majored in British and American literature. He spent his junior year abroad at Oxford University and graduated from Rice in 1993. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute.
Eagleman is currently adjunct associate professor at Stanford University and previously directed a neuroscience research laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine. He sits on boards of several arts organizations and is the youngest member of the board of directors of the Long Now Foundation. Eagleman is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Next Generation Texas Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and a council member on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Neuroscience & Behavior. He was voted one of Houston's Most Stylish men, and Italy's Style fashion magazine named Eagleman one of the "Brainiest, Brightest Idea Guys" and featured him on the cover. He was awarded the Science Educator Award by the Society for Neuroscience. He has spun off several companies from his research, including BrainCheck, which develops portable cognitive testing and concussion detection, and NeoSensory, which uses sound-to-touch sensory substitution to feed data streams into the brain, as described in his 2015 TED talk.
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