Daniel Gilbert is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology.  In 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 His 2007 book, Stumbling on Happiness, spent 6 months on the New York Times best seller list, has being translated into more than 30 languages, and was awarded the Royal Society’s General Book Prize for best science book of the year.

In 2010, he hosted and co-wrote the award-winning NOVA television series This Emotional Life which was seen by more than 10 million viewers in its first airing.

Professor Gilbert is a contributor to Time, The New York Times, and NPR's All Things Considered, and has been a guest on numerous television shows including The Today Show, Charlie Rose, 20/20, and The Colbert Report. In 2014, Science magazine named him one of the world’s 50 most-followed scientists on social media.

Dan’s TED talks have been watched by almost 20 million people, and his first TED talk remains one of the 15 most popular of all time.