30 Facts About David Eagleman

David Eagleman was born on April 25,1971 and is an American neuroscientist, author, and science communicator.

David Eagleman teaches neuroscience at Stanford University and is CEO and co-founder of Neosensory, a company that develops devices for sensory substitution.

David Eagleman directs the non-profit Center for Science and Law, which seeks to align the legal system with modern neuroscience and is Chief Science Officer and co-founder of BrainCheck, a digital cognitive health platform used in medical practices and health systems.

David Eagleman is known for his work on brain plasticity, time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw.

David Eagleman is a Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Times-bestselling author published in 32 languages.

David Eagleman's podcast has been ranked as the number-one science podcast on Apple several times and was nominated for the best science podcast of the year at the iHeart Podcast Awards at SXSW.

David Eagleman chose to Americanize the spelling of his surname after discovering several alternative spellings in personal genealogy research.

David Eagleman spent his junior year abroad at Oxford University.

David Eagleman earned his PhD in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute.

David Eagleman is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, after directing a neuroscience research laboratory for 10 years at Baylor College of Medicine.

David Eagleman serves as the Chief Science Advisor for the Mind Science Foundation, and is the youngest member of the board of directors of the Long Now Foundation.

David Eagleman 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.

David Eagleman was awarded the Science Educator Award by the Society for Neuroscience.

David Eagleman has spun off several companies from his research, including BrainCheck, which helps medical professionals assess and diagnose cognitive impairment and dementia, and Neosensory, which uses sound-to-touch sensory substitution to feed data streams into the brain, as described in his TED talk.

David Eagleman has been profiled in magazines such as the New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and Texas Observer, on pop-culture television programs such as The Colbert Report and on the scientific program Nova Science Now.

David Eagleman founded Deathswitch, an internet based dead man's switch service, in 2007.

David Eagleman appeared on MPR News, in a segment called Ask a Neuroscientist, where he answered audience-submitted questions.

David Eagleman writes that his long-range goal is "to understand how neural signals processed by different brain regions come together for a temporally unified picture of the world".

David Eagleman is the developer of The Synesthesia Battery, a free online test by which people can determine whether they are synesthetic.

David Eagleman has published extensively on what visual illusions tell us about neurobiology, concentrating especially on the flash lag illusion and wagon wheel effect.

David Eagleman is the founder and director of the Center for Science and Law.

The David Eagleman Laboratory operated a website from 2013 to 2017 called mylifememory.

David Eagleman served as a scientific advisor for the HBO television series Westworld.

David Eagleman previously served as the science advisor for the TNT television drama, Perception, starring Eric McCormack as a schizophrenic neuropsychiatrist.

In that role, David Eagleman wrote one of the episodes, "Eternity".

David Eagleman's 2009 work of literary fiction, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, is an international bestseller published in 32 languages.

In 2020, David Eagleman published The Safety Net: Surviving Pandemics and Other Disasters, an updated and retitled version of a book he had published in 2010: Why the Net Matters.

David Eagleman's 2011 science book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain was a New York Times bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, The Boston Globe, and Houston Chronicle.

In 2016, David Eagleman co-authored a textbook on cognitive neuroscience with Jonathan Downar, titled Brain and Behavior: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective, published by Oxford University Press.

In 2020, David Eagleman published Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, a nonfiction book about neuroplasticity.