A Trick Of The Mind

Daniel Yon is an experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist and director of The Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. He received his PhD in 2018, took up his first academic post in 2019 and joined the faculty at Birkbeck in 2021 - where he is now Associate Professor (Reader) in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2023 he was made a Visiting Fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study and in 2024 he was awarded the Experimental Psychology Society’s EPS Prize for distinguished, independent and original contributions to experimental psychology. He lives in London with his wife, Rosa.