Tali Sharot

Group Leader, Affective Brain Group, Max Planck UCL Centre, London

Tali Sharot is the director of the Affective Brain Lab. She is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry at University College London and on the faculty of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Prof. Sharot is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and has held fellowships from the British Academy and the Forum of European Philosophy. She is the Deputy Editor (neuroscience) for Science Advances as well as on the board of several other academic journals. Sharot holds a BA in Economics and Psychology from Tel Aviv University and a PhD from New York University. Prof. Sharot is the author of award-winning books including The Optimism Bias (2011) and The Influential Mind (2017). In addition to her academic role, Sharot has served as a consultant for large global companies and government projects. Sharot has written Op-Eds for the NYT, Time, Guardian, Washington Post, CNN and others. 

Email: t.sharot@ucl.ac.uk
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