February 20th at 19:00 // Ilya Kolmanovsky lecture: "What to do if there is brain in your head"

What neuroscience knows about the decision making, free will and the benefits of uncertainty. Ilya Kolmanovsky is a science journalist and he invites you to join a free discussion based on decades of experiments: can we learn to think about the way we think and improve our decision making?

Ilya Kolmanovsky (PhD) is a science journalist, writer, lecturer, communicator. He is a host of a widely popular science podcast “Naked Mole Rat”, with a vast international audience. Kolmanovsky has conducted interviews with six Nobel Prize winners, and countless world leading experts. Last season included such guests as Andrew Mershin (MIT), Garry Kasparov (13 world chess champion), Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley), Vadim Gladyshev (Harvard University), Alyson Muotri (UC San Diego), Svante Paabo (Max Planck Leipzig), Ruslan Medzhitov (Yale University), Akiko Iwasaki (Yale University), Alina Chan (Broad Institute), Michael Levin (Tufts University), Marc van Ranst (Leiden Uni), Konstantin Chumakov (FDA), David Nutt (King's College), Lousie Leakey (Kenya, anthropologist), Cynthia Moss (Amboseli Trust for Elephants, Kenya) and many others.

After the start of war, Ilya emigrated from Russia with his whole family and now is based in Georgia

lecture is held in English language

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