Sophie Scott

Sophie Scott CBE FBA FMedSci is a British Cognitive Neuroscientist and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL). She has been researching the human brains since the 1990s, and has published over 130 peer reviewed papers. Her research investigates the brain bases of human vocal communication, including voices, speech and laughter. She was the 2017 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer and she was awarded the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday prize and lecture in 2021.