Tatyana Vladimirovna Chernigovskaya, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Head of the Laboratory of Cognitive Studies and the Department of Problems of Convergence of Natural and Human Sciences, St. Petersburg State University; Laboratory of Cognitive Research and Chair of Convergence Problems of Natural Sciences and Humanities at St. Petersburg State University. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. Member of the Council on Science and Education under the President of the Russian Federation.

Areas of scientific interests - psycho and neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, origin of language, theory of evolution, artificial intelligence, development and pathology of language, analytical philosophy. Head of the Leading Scientific School “St. Petersburg School of Psycholinguistics”.

T.V. Chernigovskaya develops systems of modification of training programs on the basis of modern scientific data, fruitfully cooperates with a number of institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and universities of Europe; Russian Academy of Sciences and universities in Europe and the USA. She is a member of three Academic Councils for the defense of dissertations in biological and philological sciences,
Head of the City Seminar on Psycho- and Neurolinguistics of the St. Petersburg Linguistic Society, Russian representative in the Steering Committee of the Nordic Neurolinguistic Network (Steering Committee of the Nordic Neurolinguistic Network), member of the European Steering Committee on Cognitive Science. He is a State Scholar of the President of Russia and Fulbright International Exchange Program.

Popularizer of science in printed and electronic media (honorary diploma of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2008). Participant and presenter of numerous popular science TV programs and films. Laureate of the III Annual Award “For Fidelity to Science” (2016). Winner of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in the promotion of scientific knowledge in the nomination “Life Sciences” (2017).