Dr Daniel Bor

Profile

After completing my first degree in philosophy and psychology in 1997 at Oxford University, I moved to Cambridge University in 1998 for my PhD in cognitive neuroscience, at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, under the supervision of Adrian Owen and John Duncan.  Following my PhD, I stayed on as a research fellow, until early 2010, when I moved to the Sussex Centre For Consciousness Science, at the University of Sussex. From 2017, I returned to Cambridge, this time to carry out research at the department of  at the Department of Psychology in the University of Cambridge, as a principal investigator (PI) with a Wellcome Trust Fellowship.

In 2021 I moved to QMUL as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor equivalent), although I’m still a visiting research scientist at Cambridge University, where I’m a PI in the Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Lab.

Currently my lab asks clinical questions about how the brain confers resilience in ageing and dementia, and how we can use novel brain-scanning techniques for early dementia diagnosis. In addition we explore how novel information theory methods can shed new light on the neural basis of consciousness and cognition.

Over my career, I've explored the neuroscience of a wide range of cognitive topics, including working memory, attention, IQ, synaesthesia, cognitive abilities in autism spectrum.

Throughout my career, I’ve been passionate about communicating science, whether in class to my undergraduate and graduate students, or to the wider public.  I have appeared on many radio programmes talking about my ideas. My work has appeared in various newspapers, magazines and online sites including Scientific American, New Scientist, Salon, Slate, Wired UK, the BBC and others. I also enjoy giving public talks, including for New Scientist Instant Experts, at the Royal Institution, the London Science Museum and the Mind Science Foundation in Texas (in their distinguished speaker series).

I have written a popular science book, The Ravenous Brain, about the cutting edge science of consciousness (published by Basic Books), which was chosen as a best book of 2012 in the Wall Street Journal, the Book of the Week at the Times Higher Education magazine, the September main selection at Scientific American Book Club.

I also co-wrote the 30 Second Brain (published by Icon Books).

Research

Research Interests:

See Daniel Bor’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.