Heather Collins

Dr. Heather Collins is a Cognitive Neuroscientist, Ph.D., from Charleston, South Carolina. She uses her expertise in how the brain learns, thinks about, and remembers information to shed light on how brain research can affect us all. She is a senior research scientist at the Medical University of South Carolina and a keynote speaker and solopreneur. Her three energetic TEDx talks reveal how to turn brain science research into real-world action. She has 50+ prestigious academic journal publications, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association and MRI brain research projects ranging from Alzheimer’s Disease to changes in NASA astronauts’ brains. Dr. Collins lives, eats, and breathes brain science and wants to share that passion with SXSW.