Dr Daniel Glaser
director of science engagement, Royal Institution; neuroscientist

Daniel is director of science engagement at the Royal Institution, and is a neuroscientist who has worked for many years promoting public engagement with science. A Winston Churchill Fellow 2019, he was founding director of Science Gallery London, and was previously head of engaging science at the Wellcome Trust.

Daniel’s scientific background involves the use of fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to examine how experience, prejudice and expectation alter the way we see the world. He comes from an unusual academic background, studying mathematics and then English literature at Cambridge, then pursuing a master’s degree in cognitive science at the University of Sussex, graduate work in neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and postdoctoral work at University College London.

In 2002, he was appointed ‘Scientist in Residence’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. As well as presenting a television series for the BBC about how science really works, he has also contributed to numerous television and radio programmes. He was previously a judge for the Aventis Prize for Science Books and for the Wingate Prize, and he was the first scientist to judge the Man Booker Prize.

Follow Daniel on Twitter: @bnglaser

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