Sandra Aamodt PhD

Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, most recently the author of Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Obsession with Weight Loss, published by Penguin Random House. Before that, She writes two books in collaboration with Sam Wang from Princeton. Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life was published by Bloomsbury US (March 2008) and twenty-three international publishers. The American Association for the Advancement of Science named it their Young Adult Science Book of the Year in 2009.

Sandra Aamodt Before becoming an author, She was the editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience, a leading scientific journal in the field of brain research. She received my undergraduate degree in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and my Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Rochester. After four years of postdoctoral research at Yale University, She joined Nature Neuroscience at its founding in 1998 and was editor in chief from 2003 to 2008. During her career at the journal, She reads over four thousand neuroscience papers and wrote many editorials on science policy. She has also presented talks to parents, schools, non-profits, companies, universities, and scientific conferences.