Australia
Dr. Lila Landowski is an Australian neuroscientist, multi award-winning university lecturer, and science communicator who publishes under the handle Rockatscientist — a playful riff on 'rocket scientist' that signals her approachable take on a demanding field.
Total Followers +1.2%
103K
Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
69K followers · 67% of audience
Engagement
4.0%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mid
Est. $729–$2K / IG post
She received the Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science, recognising her work translating complex neuroscience through TEDx talks, viral videos and media appearances reaching over 46 million people in the past year.
Her first book applies evidence-based neuroscience to the challenge of maintaining focus in a distraction-heavy world. A second book is also described as in the pipeline.
Recognised by the Tasmanian government for services to community advocacy, education and training, and STEM.
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| Last 7 days | +0 +0.0% | +53 +0.2% | +2 +0.0% | +55 |
| Last 30 days | +187 +0.3% | +1K +3.5% | +22 +0.5% | +1K |
| Last 90 days | +0 +0.0% | +1K +4.7% | +0 +0.0% | +1K |
| Last 365 days | +0 +0.0% | +1K +4.7% | +0 +0.0% | +1K |
Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
Dr. Lila Landowski is an Australian neuroscientist, multi award-winning university lecturer, and science communicator who publishes under the handle Rockatscientist — a playful riff on 'rocket scientist' that signals her approachable take on a demanding field. Her YouTube channel blends lecture excerpts, laboratory footage, and media interview clips to bring topics like stress physiology, the amygdala, and hippocampal function to a general audience, framed around her own tagline: 'the manual your brain forgot to come with.' Beyond the channel, she serves as a director at Science Australia and Agloe Wellness, and holds a credentialed role with WHO Fides, a World Health Organization initiative focused on digital wellness — giving her academic output an unusual degree of institutional weight.
Rockatscientist reaches an audience concentrated in Australia primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories, TikTok branded content. As an education creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. With no brand deals logged yet, they read as an available, category-aligned partner for advertisers building early presence in the space. Engagement on YouTube runs around 4.1%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and Instagram Reels and Stories lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows education content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For Australia-focused brands in education and related categories, Rockatscientist offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Rockatscientist's tier (Mid, 103K combined followers, Australia). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Rockatscientist is the online handle of Dr. Lila Landowski, a multi award-winning neuroscientist and lecturer based in Australia. She uses the channel to make brain science and human biology accessible to everyday audiences across YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
Yes — Dr. Lila Landowski holds a doctorate and works as a practicing neuroscientist and university lecturer in Australia, and she has won multiple awards for both her research and her teaching. Her YouTube channel includes real laboratory footage, university-level lectures on pathophysiology, and excerpts from her academic media appearances, which set her apart from non-credentialed science communicators.
Dr. Lila Landowski has produced content on social media bans and their implications for brain health, using hashtags like #socialmediaban and #digitalwellbeing to reach audiences searching those topics. Her neuroscience background allows her to frame the debate around how social media use affects the developing brain rather than just the policy arguments.
WHO Fides is a World Health Organization initiative, and Dr. Lila Landowski is affiliated with it as a credentialed science communicator. Her involvement reflects her commitment to countering health misinformation — a natural extension of her award-winning work as a neuroscience educator and public science advocate.
Agloe Wellness is a wellbeing organization that Dr. Lila Landowski directs. It sits alongside her other leadership role at @science_aus and reflects how she extends her neuroscience expertise beyond content creation into structured programs around health and wellness.
It is Dr. Lila Landowski's signature description of her content philosophy — she frames neuroscience as the instruction guide everyone should have received for their own brain but never did. In practice this means her videos break down topics like the amygdala, hippocampus, stress responses, and mental health using plain, everyday language rather than academic jargon.
Her most consistent topics are the amygdala, the hippocampus, stress and its effects on the brain, digital wellbeing, and mental health — all recurring themes across her hashtags and video content. She also covers broader human biology and pathophysiology through lecture-format videos that draw directly from her work as a university educator.
Yes, Dr. Lila Landowski runs a Patreon at patreon.com/lilalandowski where supporters can directly fund her science communication work. It is the main way she invites her audience to contribute outside of standard platform monetization.
She holds director roles at both @science_aus and @agloe_wellness, in addition to her affiliation with WHO Fides. These positions sit alongside her academic career and her content channels, making her one of the more institutionally connected science communicators working online in Australia.
Dr. Lila Landowski is based in Australia, which is also where her largest share of viewers comes from, followed by audiences in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her content draws a predominantly younger adult demographic with a slight female-majority skew, consistent with strong interest in neuroscience, mental health, and wellbeing content in those age groups.
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