Dr Anna Abraham is the E. Paul Torrance Professor of Creativity and Gifted Education in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia (UGA). She is also the Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the College of Education at UGA.

A psychologist and neuroscientist, Dr Abraham investigates how creativity manifests in the brain. The foremost scholar in the study of human imagination, she examines creativity through cognitive, clinical and neuroscientific perspectives. Her research is widely published in journals such as Neuropsychologia and Human Brain Mapping.

Dr Abraham has featured in interviews for The Neuropsychologist, BBC Radio 4, SEISMA Magazine and The Guardian. She recently edited The Cambridge Handbook of The Imagination, a 48-chapter volume that showcases how imagination is understood through disciplines such as neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, medicine, anthropology, and the arts.

Dr Abraham is a speaker of international acclaim who has been invited to give lectures all over the world. She has is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, the Salzburg Global Seminar, and the Higher Education Academy. She is also a Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and the American Psychological Association's Division 10.

Dr Abraham serves as an elected board member of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies and is part of the steering committee of the Special Interest Group on Cognitive Design Science to The Design Society.