Daniel Ansari is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology and a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Ansari received his bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Sussex at Brighton, UK. He then went on to study for my PhD at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. Dr. Ansari interrupted his PhD to study for the MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Before moving to the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Ansari was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at Dartmouth College, USA from 2003-2006.

Dr. Ansari is the recipient of the Schloessmann Award from the Max Planck Society as well as the Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario, Canada. He has published in many international peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Current Biology, NeuroImage and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Dr. Ansari's research interests lie in the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. More specifically, Dr. Ansari and his team seek to understand how children develop basic numerical skills using behavioral as well as functional and structural brain imaging methods. Dr. Ansari and his team aim to understand the role of very basic numerical processes (such as understanding of magnitude, counting, early calculation abilities etc.) and their contribution to the typical and atypical development of numerical and mathematical competence. Dr. Ansari is very interested in forging connections between Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Education as part of the new field of 'Mind, Brain and Education'.