11 Facts About Tali Sharot

Tali Sharot is an Israeli, British, and American neuroscientist and professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and MIT.

Tali Sharot is known for her research on the neural basis of emotion, decision making and optimism.

Tali Sharot grew up in Israel with an English father and an Israeli mother.

Tali Sharot decided to focus her research on how emotion affects memory.

Tali Sharot is especially known for her discovery of the neural underpinnings of human optimism, work that has been published in numerous eminent journals.

Richard Stengel has written in a Time editorial that Tali Sharot's work gives us a better grip on how we function in reality.

Tali Sharot was one of the presenters on the Dara O Briain's Science Club, who introduced her on stage at The Royal Albert Hall's Imagining the future of Medicine in 2014.

Tali Sharot received prestigious fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, the Forum of European Philosophy and the British Academy.

Tali Sharot won the British Psychological Society Book award for 2014 and 2018.

Tali Sharot has been described as "one of the top female scientists in her country" listed as one of the 15 exemplary female Israeli-born scientists alive.

Tali Sharot's two TED talks have been viewed a total of 15 million times.