Principal, Design With Science
Editor, Research Design Connections
Consulting Expert, Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces (University of California, Berkeley
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Board Secretary, Transdisciplinary Workplace Research Network
Advisory Board, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
Workplace Design Network Chair, Environmental Design Research Association
Sally Augustin, PhD, is a practicing environmental psychologist, a principal at Design With Science, and a founder of The Space Doctors. She has extensive experience integrating neuroscience-based insights to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services that support desired cognitive, emotional, and physical outcomes/experiences. Her client base is worldwide and includes organizations and individuals that produce and/or use designed solutions. Augustin, who is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, is the editor of Research Design Connections, which reports and synthesizes (in everyday language) the findings of recent and classic research in neuroscience, cognitive science, and the social sciences that are useful to designers. Dr. Augustin is also a Core Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Augustin’s work has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and she holds leadership positions in professional organizations such as the Transdisciplinary Workplace Research Network, the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, and the Environmental Design Research Association. She has discussed using design to enhance lives on mass-market national television and radio programs in multiple countries. Dr. Augustin is the author of Designology (Mango, 2019), Place Advantage: Applied Psychology for Interior Architecture (Wiley, 2009) and, with Cindy Coleman, The Designer’s Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design (Wiley, 2012).