Baland Jalal

Baland Jalal’s fascination with the mysteries of the human brain has taken him from Copenhagen to Cambridge to Harvard, where he is a researcher in the Department of Psychology. Author of more than 50 scientific papers, he has spent over a decade researching sleep and consciousness states and disorders of the brain and mind, in numerous countries across four continents. His work has been featured in major media including The New York Times, CNN, the BBC and TIME Magazine; The Phantom Mind is his first popular book.