Indre Viskontas
Dr. Indre Viskontas, MM, PhD, is a neuroscientist, musician, opera stage director and science communicator across all mediums. Combining a passion for music with scientific curiosity, she is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco where she runs The Creative Brain Lab and is on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is the President of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, and Chief Science Officer at Reverberation, a company co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel dedicated to helping everyone do everything better with music. She also leads the Communications Core at the Sound Health Network, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, promoting research and public awareness of the impact music can have on our health and well-being and is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board at the NeuroArts Blueprint.
She has written more than 50 academic publications on the neural basis of memory, music and creativity. She was recently an Osher Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, investigating the impact of conservation photography on climate action. Her work has been featured in Oliver Sacks鈥� book Musicophilia, Nature: Science Careers, Nautilus, DiscoverMagazine and other outlets. Her book, How Music Can Make You Better, was published by Chronicle Books. She has co-hosted several TV and web series, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, PBS NewsHour, major radio stations across the US, including NPR鈥檚 City Arts & Lectures and the CBC鈥檚 The Sunday Edition. She is the host of the popular science podcast Inquiring Minds, host and creator of the podcast Cadence: what music tells us about the mind, a Webby Awards Honoree, and the host and writer of the Audible Original podcast Radiant Minds: the World of Oliver Sacks. She often gives keynote talks and has created four 24-lecture courses for The Great Courses/Wondrium called Essential Scientific Concepts, Brain Myths Exploded, How Digital Technology Shapes Us and Creativity and Your Brain.
