David Eagleman

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, New York Times best-selling author and Guggenheim Fellow who teaches in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Eagleman’s areas of research include time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system. His published books include Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia, and Live-Wired: How the Brain Rewrites its own Circuitry.

Dr. Eagleman has also written an internationally bestselling book of literary fiction, Sum: 40 Tales From the Afterlives, which has been translated into 27 languages and was named a Best Book of the Year by Barnes and Noble, New Scientist, and the Chicago Tribune. Dr. Eagleman has written for the Atlantic, New York Times, Discover Magazine, Slate, Wired, and New Scientist, appears regularly on National Public Radio and BBC to discuss both science and literature, and has been profiled in the New Yorker.