Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D.

Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D., directs the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging unit, located near Paris, and is the author of The Number Sense (1999) and Reading in the Brain (2009), both broadly acclaimed and translated . In 2005, at the age of 40, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences and as a professor of the Collège de France in Paris, which created a new chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology for him. Dehaene has received several international prizes, including the James S. McDonnell Centennial Ffellowship, the Louis D Foundation Prize, and the Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science. A March 2008 profile in The New Yorker (“Numbers Guy”) called him “one of the world’s foremost researchers,” “completely pioneering,” and “a scanning virtuoso” in the field of numerical cognition.