Julia F Christensen

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).

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A shirtless dancer posing on stage with an angled room in the background where a couple interacts, creating an illusionary effect.

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Dance 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

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Neuroscience

‘Let the soul dangle’: how mind-wandering spurs creativity

Julia F Christensen, Guido Giglioni & Manos Tsakiris

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