Guggenheim Fellow; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Director, Laboratory for Perception and Action, Stanford University School of Medicine; Host of the Emmy-Nominated PBS Series, “The Brain”; Regular Guest on National Public Radio and BBC on both science and literature; Internationally Bestselling Author, Livewired (2021), The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters (2020), The Brain: The Story of You (2017),  and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2012); Co-Author, The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World (2017)