Lera Boroditsky is a celebrated cognitive scientist and professor of language and cognition. She is known for her research in the field of cognitive science and investigates, among other things, how language influences our thinking.

One of her main areas of research is how people with different linguistic backgrounds behave or exhibit different behaviors when exposed to certain events.
Lera Boroditsky was born in Belarus in 1976, studied cognitive science at Northwestern University and earned her Ph. D. in cognitive psychology at Stanford University. After serving on the faculty at MIT and Stanford, she is now a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
For the US magazine Utne Reader, she is “one of 25 visionaries changing the world”. She is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, a National Science Foundation Career Achievement Award recipient, and an American Psychological Association honoree.