Rodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the New York University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogota, Colombia and obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Australian National University in Canberra, under John Eccles (Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology). His most recent book is I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. He has published over 400 scientific articles.