An eye surgeon and neuroscience researcher, turned writer.

Mithu Storoni trained at the University of Cambridge, taking an MA at St John's College in 1999 and qualifying in medicine (MB BChir) in 2002. 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. Her interest in neuroscience deepened 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 has worked as an eye surgeon and as a researcher, and is interested in how the brain processes, adapts, and breaks down under modern demands.

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 in 2017, distilled findings from more than five hundred studies into a working manual for resilience. The same instinct — make the science legible to the people who most need it — runs through Hyperefficient.

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.