Robert Sapolsky

Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinologist, the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University, as well as a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. His research focuses on studying stress in primates and neurological disease in the lab while he has taken annual trips to the Serengeti of East Africa to study a population of wild baboons and the relationship between personality and stress-related diseases, providing important insight into primate social behaviors, including in humans. He is the author of seven books, including “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will,” and a recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant”, the John P. McGovern Award for Behavioral Science (awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), and Wonderfest’s Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.