Neuroscience Professor & Host, Huberman Lab Podcast
Dr. Andrew Huberman: Biography at a Glance
- Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and the host of the Huberman Lab podcast, which focuses on science and science-based tools for everyday life.
- With new episodes available weekly, Huberman Lab consistently ranks among the Top 15 of all podcasts globally and is often ranked #1 in the categories of Science, Education, and Health & Fitness.
- Huberman's book Protocols offers an essential guide to improving brain function, enhancing mood and energy, optimizing health and physical performance, and rewiring your nervous system to learn new skills and behaviors that can transform your life.
- Andrew is a tenured professor in the department of Neurobiology, and by courtesy, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine as well as a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow.
- His lab’s most recent work focuses on the influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain states such as fear and courage.
- Huberman is also actively involved in developing tools now in use by the elite military in the U.S. and Canada, as well as athletes and technology industries, to optimize performance in high-stress environments, enhance neural plasticity, mitigate stress, and optimize sleep.
- Huberman is a sought-after speaker on innovation in health and wellness, longevity, and achieving peak performance.
Biography
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the department of Neurobiology, and by courtesy, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. He has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function, and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning.
Huberman is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation Fellow and was awarded the Cogan Award, given to the scientist making the most significant discoveries in the study of vision, in 2017. His lab’s most recent work focuses on the influence of vision and respiration on human performance and brain states such as fear and courage. He also works on neural regeneration and directs a clinical trial to promote visual restoration in diseases that cause blindness. Huberman is also actively involved in developing tools now in use by the elite military in the U.S. and Canada, athletes, and technology industries to optimize performance in high stress environments, enhance neural plasticity, mitigate stress and optimize sleep.
Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford School of Medicine has been published in top journals including Nature, Science and Cell and has been featured in TIME, BBC, Scientific American, Discover and other top media outlets.
In 2021, Dr. Huberman launched the Huberman Lab podcast. The podcast is frequently ranked in the top 10 of all podcasts globally and is often ranked #1 in the categories of Science, Education, and Health & Fitness.
Huberman is a sought-after speaker on innovation in health and wellness, longevity, and achieving peak performance.
