Dr. Carl Marci is Chief Neuroscientists of Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience. He is also on faculty at Harvard Medical School and is the former Director of Social Neuroscience at the Massachusetts General Hospital and former Visiting Lecturer at the MIT Media Lab. Dr. Marci received his B.A. with honors at Columbia University, his M.A. in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and then completed his M.D. with honors at Harvard Medical School. He has extensive training in biometrics and neuroscience through two National Institutes of Health research fellowships.

Dr. Marci founded Innerscope Research, which was acquired by Nielsen in 2015. The company’s innovative research has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Media Post, Psychology Today, Wired Magazine, Fast Company and the International Herald Tribune and Dr. Marci has been interviewed in CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed science journals, gives lectures nationally and internationally and is a pioneer in the new fields of social and consumer neuroscience.