Stuart Firestein

About the Author

Stuart Firestein is a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University and member of the Santa Fe Institute. He has published over 100 scientific papers in journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, and Neuron. He is a Guggenheim fellow, and a fellow and consultant for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is also the author of Ignorance and Failure. He lives in New York City.