Daniela Schiller

Daniela Schiller is a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry and the director of the Schiller Lab at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Through a series of ground-breaking experiments, she proved that negative emotions, such as fear, grief and trauma, can be disconnected from the memory that triggers them. This changes the general  understanding of memory as immutable. Her research has shown that memory is something that we create and recreate depending on who we are at the time of remembering. Her research has the  potential to help people all over the world who have experienced traumatising events in making peace with their past and their memories.