H. A. Berlin

Berlin was born in New York City to a Jewish family.[8] She received her doctorate in experimental psychology/neuropsychology from University of Oxford, Magdalen College and her Master of Public Health from Harvard University specializing in psychiatric epidemiology and health care management/policy.[9] Berlin earned her Master's in psychology from The New School for Social Research and Bachelor of Science from Stony Brook University.[10] Berlin was a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai working on compulsive, impulsive, personality, and anxiety disorders.[1] She is married to the rapper and playwright Baba Brinkman. They have a daughter, born in November 2013, and a son, born in November 2016.[11]

Berlin has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Young Investigator Award from the American Neuropsychiatric Association, a Young Investigator Award from the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, and the Clifford Yorke Prize from the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She won the 2015 BBC2 Christmas University Challenge as part of the Magdalen College, Oxford team.

Berlin is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and a Visiting Scholar at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She trained in clinical neuropsychology at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Department of Neurological Surgery, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Berlin's research has been published in American Journal of Psychiatry,[12] Journal of Personality Disorders, Psychiatry Research, Brain, and Scientific American[13] among others.

Passionate about science communication and promoting women in STEM, Berlin is a committee member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Committee on Science and Technology Engagement with the Public (CoSTEP)[14], and The New York Times series TimesTalks.

She co-wrote and stars in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway and Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Off the Top, about the neuroscience of improvisation [15], and the new Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Impulse Control[16]. Berlin has made numerous media appearances including on the History Channel,[17] Netflix (Chelsea Does Drugs with Chelsea Handler),[18] BBC World Service,[19] StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson,[20][21][22][23] Big Think,[24][25] Bill Nye: Science Guy documentary film,[26][27] Curious Minds and One World with Deepak Chopra,[28][29] StoryCollider[30] and TEDx.[2][31]

• heatherberlin.com
• @heather_berlin on Twitter
• Faculty profile on Mt Sinai website
• Science Goes to the Movies