Dr. Indre Viskontas, MM, PhD

Dr. Indre Viskontas, MM, PhD, is a neuroscientist, musician, opera stage director and science communicator across all mediums. Combining a passion for music with scientific curiosity, she is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco where she runs The Creative Brain Lab and is on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is the President of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, and Chief Science Officer at Reverberation, a company co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel dedicated to helping everyone do everything better with music. She also led the Communications Core at the Sound Health Network, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, and is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board at the NeuroArts Blueprint. She has written more than 50 academic publications on the neural basis of memory, music and creativity. She has co-hosted several TV and web series, and has appeared on mainstream TV and major radio stations across the US. She has hosted and created four distinct podcasts, 98 streaming lectures for The Great Courses and a LinkedIn Learning course called Building Creativity from the Brain Up.