Rebecca Saxe PhD

Rebecca Saxe is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the department of BCS and an associate member of the McGovern Institute. Saxe received her BA from Oxford University, and her PhD from MIT. Before joining the faculty, she was a Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows. Saxe has authored peer-reviewed papers on the cognitive neuroscience of social cognition, Theory of Mind, and moral judgment. Her TED talk has been viewed millions of times, and has been translated into 33 languages. She was recently named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.