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Dr. Robert E. Hampson

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a Neuroscientist and author.  By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how to restore brain function, including memory.  By night, he writes military, adventure and hard-science Science Fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the general public.

Robert Hampson's 2023 breakout novel The Moon and the Desert, builds on his scientific background to update the 1970’s classic TV program The Six Million Dollar Man.  His SF writing career began with "They Also Serve," a short story in Riding the Red Horse, published in 2015.  That story became the foundation of his first solo novel The Human Side, in 2020.  He has three collaborative novels with Sandra Medlock, Chris Kennedy and Casey Moores in the "Wrogul's Oath" arc of the popular Four Horsemen Universe, has co-edited two anthologies, and published more than 30 works of short fiction (some written as “Tedd Roberts”).  He is also a regular contributor of nonfiction articles for science fiction readers, with more than 15 articles published. 

Dr. Hampson's forty-year scientific career has ranged from studying the effects of commonly abused drugs on memory, to the effects of space radiation on the brain.  He is also a professor in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (where he works on problems of neural repair, regeneration and rehabilitation); a scientific journal editor; a reviewer for dozens of journals and research agencies; has been interviewed on his research by newspapers, radio and TV; and a consultant to TV and game producers, defense contractors, and authors.  He has published more than 175 peer-reviewed scientific articles.

Robert E. Hampson is available as a consultant through SIGMA – the Science Fiction Think Tank and the Science and Entertainment Exchange (a service of the National Academy of Sciences)

His website is REHampson.com.