Tali Sharot is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. Her research on the neuroscience of optimism, emotion, memory and decision making has been published in top scientific journals including Nature and Nature Neuroscience, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, the New Scientist, the BBC, and more. She has previously taught courses in psychology and neuroscience and conducted research at New York University (where she received her PhD), Harvard University, and the University of California.