Gerry Leisman is an Israeli-British neuroscientist educated in Europe and the United States at Manchester University and the City University of New York. He received a PhD in Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering from Union University, in 1979. He currently is associated with the University of Haifa in Israel and is the Director of the F. R. Carrick Institute for Clinical Ergonomics, Rehabilitation, and Applied Neuroscience (C.E.R.A.N.).

He has been active since the early 1970s in the promotion of consciousness as a scientifically tractable problem, and has been particularly influential in arguing that consciousness can now be approached using the modern tools of neurobiology and understood by mechanisms of theoretical physics. He has also been influential in examining mechanisms of self organizing systems in the brain and nervous system for cognitive function exemplified by his work in memory, kinesiology, optimization, consciousness & death, and autism.