BiografÃa / Speaker Info
Mariano Sigman is one of the world's leading neuroscientists, with more than 150 publications in the most prestigious scientific journals.
He is also passionate about experimentation and has worked with magicians, chefs, chess players, musicians, athletes and artists to bring neuroscience knowledge to different aspects of human culture and apply it in different environments.
He has participated twice (2016 and 2017) in the global TED event in Vancouver, the second time together with Dan Ariely.
In his lectures he teaches us how the mind works and what lessons we can extract to impact aspects such as decision making, leadership, team management, personal development or creative skills, always with high audience participation through experiments and games.
He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, Ph.D. in Neuroscience (Phd) in New York and did a post-doc in Cognitive Sciences at the College de France (Paris).
Beyond academia, Mariano Sigman's research has had practical implications in medicine (for example in the diagnosis of vegetative or autistic patients), in education (with effective interventions to improve decision-making and learning in schools throughout Latin America) and in art, in a project "The Morphology of the Gaze" that has been exhibited in New York, Austria, Moscow, Mexico, Japan... and was presented in 2017 at the Venice Biennale.
He has also developed an extensive career in scientific dissemination, including television programs and hundreds of articles published in different editorial media.
