22 Facts About Moran Cerf

Moran Cerf is an American-French-Israeli neuroscientist, professor of business, investor and former white hat hacker.

Moran Cerf is the founder of Think-Alike and B-Cube and the host and curator of PopTech, one of the top 5 leading conferences in the world.

Moran Cerf has received numerous awards including the Templeton Foundation "Extraordinary Minds" award, and the Chicagoan award.

Moran Cerf has won several national storytelling competitions, most notably The Moth GrandSLAM, multiple times.

Moran Cerf has spoken publicly on topics of neuroscience, business, decision making and hacking and his views on the risks of hacking into humans' brains often appear in the media.

Moran Cerf was born in Paris, France, to a Jewish family, and raised in Israel.

Moran Cerf appeared in many Israeli TV shows for children when young, which garnered him attention in Israel.

Moran Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics, and a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University.

Moran Cerf leave his senior business post and pursue full-time PhD at Caltech, under Prof.

Moran Cerf became a public figure in the science communication sphere where his talks garnered a large following.

In 2014 Moran Cerf was appointed as a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, where he holds positions as both a business and neuroscience professor.

Moran Cerf is well known for his research on consciousness and projecting people's thoughts and dreams directly from their brain, his research on free will, his ideas on the future of humans and the ability to hack our brains, and for his work in the neuroscience in marketing.

Moran Cerf is a frequent contributor to "Business Insider", "Forbes" and various other popular media journals where he writes on topics in neuroscience and business and ways to implement science in decision-making.

Moran Cerf spent nearly a decade working as a computer system hacker, breaking into financial and government institutes to test and improve their security.

Moran Cerf is known for his pioneering work studying patients undergoing brain-surgery, which allows him to investigate behavior, emotion, decision making, and dreams by directly recording the activity of individual neurons using electrodes implanted in the patient's brain.

Moran Cerf is an associate editor for several scholarly journals in both business and neuroscience and a consultant for companies in many industries, including automotive, performance, finance, and relationships.

Since 2007, Cerf has held a permanent appointment at the American Film Institute as the Alfred P Sloan Professor, where he teaches an annual workshop on science communication in film and TV.

In 2018, Moran Cerf founded B-Cube, a non-profit that helps organizations use advances in neuroscience to change behavior.

Moran Cerf has spoken at the UN and various organizations on ways to use neuroscience and research to promote young individuals' rise out of poverty, on the ethics of using neuroscience to prevent threats to democracy and on the dangers of the attention economy.

Moran Cerf worked with the United States Digital Service under President Obama, and continued working with 18F during the Trump administration.

Moran Cerf's work focused on cybersecurity, in particular the 'login.

In 2016, Moran Cerf was selected as one of Elle Magazine's most eligible bachelors.