I’m the author of Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World, with support from the Sloan Foundation’s Public Understanding of Science & Technology Program. My neuroscience research focuses on elucidating the general principles of biological information processing and agency, and has been funded by the HFSP fellowship, the EMBO fellowship, the Branco Weiss Fellowship, the National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship, and the Berkeley fellowship. I was awarded the Regeneron Prize for creative innovation in biomedicine. My writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Harper's MagazineThe New YorkerNautilus, the Utne Reader, the Massachusetts Review, and more.

Watch my talk on games for the Royal Institution here.

Represented by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit.

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