Sophie Kerttu Scott CBE FMedSci FBA (born 16 November 1966[3][4]) is a British neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL).

[9] Scott is known for her public engagement work, including performing standup comedy,[17] and was featured in a September 2013 edition of the BBC Radio Four programme The Life Scientific.

[21] Scott presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2017 entitled The Language of Life which explored the topic of communication.

[22] Scott has been a panel guest several times on BBC Radio 4 programme The Infinite Monkey Cage on episodes covering neuroscience, reality and the human voice[23] and in 2016 appeared on the BBC TV series Horizon, The Science of Laughter with comedian Jimmy Carr.

Her work was the first to identify that the early perceptual processing of speech parallels the perception of conspecific calls in non-human primate brains.

[3] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to neuroscience.