About
David Robson is an award-winning science writer specialising in the extremes of the human brain, body and behaviour.
After graduating with a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University, he worked as a features editor at New Scientist for five years, before moving to BBC Future, where he was a senior journalist for five years. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic, Aeon, Monocle, Men’s Health and many more outlets. David has received numerous awards from the Association of British Science Writers and the UK Medical Journalists’ Association. In 2022, he was a finalist for the Best British Science Journalist of the Year Award.
David’s first book, The Intelligence Trap, was published in 2019, and received worldwide media attention. His second book The Expectation Effect was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the British Psychological Society Book Award. His third book, The Laws of Connection, was published in 2024.
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