Richard Thaler
2017 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences | Father of Behavioral Economics | Professor, University of Chicago Booth | Author, Nudge & Misbehaving
David Eagleman
Neuroscientist & Adjunct Professor at Stanford University | NYT Bestselling Author of Livewired & Incognito | CEO of Neosensory | Host of Inner Cosmos | TED Speaker
David Eagleman is a Stanford neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, and one of the world's great science communicators. Published in 32 languages, he wrote and presented the Emmy-nominated series The Brain, hosts the #1 science podcast Inner Cosmos, and is CEO of neurotech company Neosensory. On stage, he makes the strangeness of your own brain feel thrilling, and shows audiences how adaptable human beings really are.
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David Eagleman biography
David Eagleman is one of the most compelling science communicators alive, a Stanford neuroscientist who has spent his career on the strangest and most consequential question there is: how does a three-pound organ generate everything you experience? His answer, delivered across bestselling books, an Emmy-nominated television series, and a chart-topping podcast, is that the brain is far more adaptable, and reality far more negotiable, than almost anyone assumes.
Science speaker David Eagleman is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and an affiliate of its Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, where his research spans brain plasticity, time perception, synesthesia, and sensory substitution. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Neosensory, a neurotech company that builds devices translating information into new sensory experiences, including a wristband that lets people with hearing loss feel sound on their skin. It is a rare combination: a working scientist who has turned his own research into shipped products, and who can explain both to a general audience without losing an ounce of rigor.
Livewired: The Ever-Changing Brain
A Guggenheim Fellow whose books have been published in thirty-two languages, Eagleman is the author of the international bestsellers Sum, Incognito, and Livewired, and the writer and presenter of the Emmy-nominated series The Brain with David Eagleman. His podcast, Inner Cosmos, has repeatedly ranked as the number-one science show on Apple. He also directs the nonprofit Center for Science and Law, which works to bring the legal system into line with what neuroscience now knows about human behavior, and his Stanford research continues to explore how the brain rewires itself throughout life. The Society for Neuroscience named him Science Educator of the Year, and Bell Labs awarded him its Claude Shannon Luminary Award.
As a speaker, David Eagleman is vivid, surprising, and unusually good at making an audience feel the weirdness of their own minds. He speaks on brain plasticity and human adaptability, creativity and where new ideas actually come from, the future of human perception and sensory augmentation, and what neuroscience reveals about decision-making and behavior. Audiences leave with a genuinely altered sense of what they are capable of changing, in themselves and in their organizations.
David Eagleman Speaking Videos
Can we create new senses for humans? | David Eagleman
Creating New Human Senses | David Eagleman | Talks at Google
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Drawing on his bestselling book, Eagleman explains that the brain is not fixed hardware but a system that constantly rewires itself in response to whatever it encounters. He shows what this means for learning, aging, recovery, and change, and makes a powerful, evidence-based case that individuals and organizations are far more capable of adaptation than they believe.
Eagleman has studied human creativity as a biological phenomenon, asking why our species alone reshapes its world so relentlessly. He unpacks the mental mechanisms behind innovation, bending, breaking, and blending what already exists, and gives audiences a practical, research-grounded framework for generating and recognizing genuinely new ideas.
We experience only a sliver of the world around us. In his signature talk, Eagleman explores how technology can expand human senses, drawing on the sensory-substitution devices his own company builds, and asks what it will mean when people can feel data, hear through their skin, or perceive information no human has perceived before. It is a genuinely startling look at where being human is heading.
Most of what your brain does, it does without telling you. Eagleman explores the vast unconscious machinery beneath awareness, and what it reveals about why people behave as they do, how bias and perception distort judgment, and what leaders can learn from taking the hidden brain seriously, including his pioneering work applying neuroscience to law and justice.
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Why David Eagleman?
Booking David Eagleman gives audiences one of the very best science communicators working today, with the credentials to back it up. He is a Stanford neuroscientist, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a New York Times bestselling author published in thirty-two languages, and he has reached mainstream audiences through an Emmy-nominated television series and the number-one science podcast on Apple. He also runs a neurotech company, so his talks connect research to real products and real applications. Vivid, funny, and full of ideas that stay with people long afterward, he is a genuine highlight-of-the-conference speaker. He is ideal for events on science, innovation, technology, creativity, and human potential. To bring David Eagleman to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is David Eagleman?
David Eagleman is an American neuroscientist, bestselling author, and science communicator. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and an affiliate of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and the co-founder and CEO of the neurotech company Neosensory. He is the author of eight books, including Sum, Incognito, and Livewired, published in thirty-two languages, the writer and presenter of the Emmy-nominated series The Brain with David Eagleman, and the host of the podcast Inner Cosmos. A Guggenheim Fellow, he also directs the nonprofit Center for Science and Law and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine.
What is David Eagleman's book Livewired about?
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain is David Eagleman's book on neuroplasticity, the brain's remarkable capacity to rewire itself. Its central argument is that the brain is not fixed circuitry but "livewired," continuously reshaping itself around the body it inhabits and the world it encounters. Eagleman explores what happens when people lose a sense or gain a new one, how the brain absorbs new technologies, and what all of this suggests about learning, memory, aging, and the possibility of deliberately expanding human capability. It has been widely praised as one of the most accessible accounts of modern brain science.
What topics does science speaker David Eagleman cover?
David Eagleman speaks on brain plasticity and human adaptability, the science of creativity and innovation, the future of human perception and sensory augmentation, and what neuroscience reveals about decision-making, bias, and behavior. His keynotes suit events on science, technology, innovation, healthcare, education, and human potential. To book David Eagleman as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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