Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. Professor Blakemore co-authored a book with Professor Uta Frith called The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education. Her first solo book, Inventing Ourselves: the secret life of the teenage brain, was published by Doubleday in March 2018 and was awarded the Royal Society Book Prize 2018. Professor Blakemore was awarded the British Psychological Society Doctoral Award 2001, the BPS Spearman Medal for outstanding early career research 2006, the Annual Lecturer Award 2011 by the Swedish Neuropsychology Society, the Young Mind & Brain Prize 2013, the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award 2013, the Klaus J Jacobs Prize 2015 and the BPS Presidents' Award 2018. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. You can read more about the group and their research here: https://sites.google.com/site/blakemorelab/.