Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, London
Dr Julia F Christensen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Warburg Institute, London. She is the co-author of Dancing Is the Best Medicine (Greystone Books, 2021) and the author of The Pathway to Flow (Vintage, 2025).
essayNeuroscience
Ingredients for brilliance
An immersive ‘flow state’ isn’t only accessible to great artists and athletes. You can find your flow too. Here’s how
Julia F Christensen
essayDance and theatre
To the core
A devastating loss can shatter the façade we put up for others, exposing our deepest, rawest self. A work of art can do the same
Julia F Christensen
ideaNeuroscience
‘Let the soul dangle’: how mind-wandering spurs creativity
Julia F Christensen, Guido Giglioni & Manos Tsakiris