David Eagleman

David Eagleman is one of my favorite kinds of scientists: the rare researcher who refuses to hide in the lab. Working on time perception, synesthesia, and brain plasticity, he turns slippery, abstract neuroscience into language anyone can grasp, and he does it without dumbing anything down. That he teaches at Stanford, writes bestsellers, and founded a nonprofit linking neuroscience to law shows a mind committed to public good, not just citations. I admire how he treats curiosity as a civic resource. A Guggenheim Fellow reaching out to ordinary readers is exactly the kind of bridge science needs more of.

Name (English)

David Eagleman

Name (Japanese)

デイビット・イーグルマン

Reading

でいびっと・いーぐるまん

Born

April 25, 1971 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

Origin

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Occupation

neuroscientist / psychologist / author / university teacher / life scientist

University

Rice University

Awards & achievements

• Guggenheim Fellowship

• Official sitehttps://www.eagleman.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/davideagleman/
• Xhttps://x.com/davideagleman
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Eagleman
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q999577

Tags

• New Mexico
• neuroscientist
• psychologist
• author

Last updated

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.