Susan Greenfield

Susan Greenfield CBE is a world-renowned British neuroscientist, author and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield’s extensive researched has focused primarily on the treatment of both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease and she possesses a keen interest in the brain’s consciousness as well as the impact of technology on the brain, an increasingly topical issue in modern society.

In 2013 Greenfield co-founded the Biotech company Neuro-bio Ltd, an organisation of which she is now Chief Executive Officer. The privately-owned company discovers and develops medicines for neurodegenerative disorders. In Greenfield’s tremendous 40 year career she has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, based mainly at Oxford University. She holds an astounding 32 honorary degrees from UK and foreign Universities and is a senior research fellow at Oxford University. Prior to this she was a chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh for seven years and a director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain for almost a decade.

Greenfield is the author of several popular science books which explore the future of the human mind in considerable detail. A Day in the Life of the Brain is just one in many of Greenfield’s ground-breaking books, which examine the complexities of the brain, as she tries to uncover the mysteries of consciousness. She discusses how factors such as age, mental illness and disease can heavily impact our brain and reinforces just how extraordinary an organ it is.