Anna Abraham is the E. Paul Torrance Professor and Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity at the University of Georgia (UGA), USA. She leads the Creativity and Imagination Lab at UGA where she also serves as a Neuroscience faculty member of the Integrated Life Sciences Program (ILS), a faculty fellow at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI), and a faculty affiliate of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research (OIBR). Dr. Abraham investigates the psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying creativity and other aspects of the human imagination, including the reality-fiction distinction, mental time travel, social and self-referential cognition, aesthetic experience, and mental state reasoning. Her educational and professional training has been within the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience, and she has worked across a diverse range of academic departments and institutions the world over, all of which have informed her cross-cultural and multidisciplinary focus. She is the Founding Editor of the Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination - an academic short book series. She has penned numerous publications including the 2018 book, The Neuroscience of Creativity (Cambridge University Press), and 2020 edited volume, The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination. Her latest book is The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths (2024, MIT Press). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA, UK), the Higher Education Academy (HEA, UK), and the Salzburg Global Seminar (SGS, Austria). She is also an Expert Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and serves as a Scientific Advisory Board member for the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, Germany: 2024-2029).