Jan Lauwereyns

Jan Lauwereyns (1969) is a poet, essayist, and scientist. Born and raised in Belgium, he was trained as a cognitive psychologist at the University of Leuven (PhD, 1998). He went on to specialize in neurophysiology, performing postdoctoral research at Juntendo University in Japan and at the US National Institutes of Health. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention and decision making. Lauwereyns lives in Fukuoka, Japan, where he is Professor in the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University. In addition to his scientific writing, Lauwereyns has published innovative poetry and fiction in Dutch, English, and Japanese. For his creative work in Dutch, he has received several important accolades, including most notably the VSB Poetry Prize 2012.