An eye surgeon and neuroscience researcher, turned author.

Mithu Storoni studied medicine at St. John's College, University of Cambridge, taking an MA in 1999 and qualifying in medicine (MB BChir) in 2002. Her interest in neuroscience began after spending time in Margaret Livingstone's Neurobiology lab at Harvard, where she worked on a visual perception project with Nobel Prize-winner David Hubel. She went on to specialise in ophthalmology, becoming a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (MRCOphth) in 2007, and completed a PhD in neuro-ophthalmology at University College London in 2012. She has worked as an eye surgeon and as a neuroscience researcher, and is interested in the science of mental performance: how the brain produces its best thinking, why the modern work template interrupts it, and what individuals and organisations can do to design around it.

Her writing began as an attempt to translate what was buried in peer-reviewed neuroscience into something practitioners outside the lab could actually use. Stress Proof, published by Penguin Random House group in 2017, distilled findings from more than five hundred studies into a working manual for resilience. Hyperefficient builds on the same mission with even greater precision and urgency for the modern knowledge worker. In a world drowning in information, digital demands, and the illusion of "always-on" productivity, Storoni argues that the old industrial model of forcing our brains to fit rigid work schedules is fundamentally broken. Instead of imposing the rhythm of work on our brains, we should impose the rhythm of our brains on our work. Hyperefficient turns cutting-edge peer-reviewed research into a daily competitive advantage.

Hyperefficient (2024) was named Business Book of the Year 2025 and is a Financial Times Must-read Business Book. Mithu was featured in the AI Impact series for Newsweek, and her work has been featured in TIME, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, The Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, BBC, Fast Company, Fortune, and Inc.

She was also featured in Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, the Emmy Award-winning Netflix docuseries.