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Stuart Firestein

Scientist; Advocate for the Public Understanding of Science

Scientist; Advocate for the Public Understanding of Science

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Stuart Firestein Biography

Dr. Stuart Firestein is the former Chair of Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences where his laboratory studies the vertebrate olfactory system which serves as a model for investigating general principles and mechanisms of signaling and perception in the brain. His laboratory seeks to answer that fundamental human question: How do I smell?

Dedicated to promoting the accessibility of science to a public audience Firestein serves as an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program for the Public Understanding of Science, where he reviews scripts for the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Science and Technology Program, and for the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2011 he received the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship and teaching. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, an Alfred Sloan Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. He recently joined the Santa Fe Institute as a member of the (visiting) Fractal Faculty. At Columbia he is on the Advisory boards of the Center for Science and Society (CSS) and the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience – both centers for interdisciplinary work between the sciences and the humanities.

He has published two books on the workings of science for a general audience, "Ignorance, How it Drives Science" and "Failure: Why Science is So Successful." They have been translated into 12 languages. He is a board member and regular contributor to Nautilus magazine.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/26/2024.

Stuart Firestein Videos

  • How failure can be a path into the unimaginable | Stuart Firestein | TEDx
    Stuart Firestein, PhD is a Neuroscientist  and Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, in his talks he shares how across history...
  • Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance
    What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more...

Stuart Firestein Books

  • Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
    Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
  • Ignorance: How It Drives Science
    Ignorance: How It Drives Science

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