Anil Seth

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty years. He is the author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (September 2021) - a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and a Book of the Year for many listings. He also authored the best-selling 30 Second Brain. His 2017 TED talk on consciousness has been viewed more than fourteen million times, he has appeared in several films (The Most Unknown, The Search), and he has written for Aeon, The Guardian, Granta, New Scientist, and Scientific American. In 2023 he was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for his contributions to communicating advances in neuroscience and consciousness, and what it means to be human. He has published more than 200 academic apers and is has since 2019 been listed in the Web of Science ‘highly cited researcher’ index, which recognizes the world’s most influential researchers over the past decade.