Erik Hoel

Dr. Erik Hoel is one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in science and also a New York City Emerging Writers Fellow. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic , The Baffler , and The Daily Beast , among many others, and his essays and short stories have won numerous awards, from getting first place in the Writer's Digest Annual Fiction Award to being included as a notable essay in the 2017 Best American Essays Collection . Erik received his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was...See more

Dr. Erik Hoel is one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in science and also a New York City Emerging Writers Fellow. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic , The Baffler , and The Daily Beast , among many others, and his essays and short stories have won numerous awards, from getting first place in the Writer's Digest Annual Fiction Award to being included as a notable essay in the 2017 Best American Essays Collection . Erik received his PhD in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, has held a visiting scholarship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and is now a research professor at Tufts University where he studies consciousness and emergence. Originally, he grew up in his mother's independent bookstore, The Jabberwocky, where he worked as a teenager, and is a lifelong writer and book lover. He runs a popular Substack, The Intrinsic Perspective , and lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. See less