Benjamin Baird is a neuroscientist whose research spans consciousness, sleep, cognition, and neurotechnology. His research has appeared in Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, The Journal of Neuroscience, Psychological Science, and SLEEP, among other journals, and has been cited over 8,000 times ↗.
Ben received his B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research and training have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the BIAL Foundation, and The Consciousness Foundation.
He has worked extensively on the science of lucid dreaming, including collaborations with Stephen LaBerge. He later worked with Giulio Tononi at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a research scientist. He was also a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.