Jim B. Tucker is the Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is a child psychiatrist who has studied children’s reports of past-life memories for 25 years at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies. He is the author of Before: Children's Memories of Previous Lives, a 2-in-1 edition of his books Life Before Life and Return to Life, which together have been translated into twenty languages.

Jim attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where he graduated with a degree in psychology, followed by a Medical Degree. He then completed a residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child psychiatry at the University of Virginia. Following a stint in private practice, he returned to UVA, where in addition to his research work, he served as the medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic for nine years. He has published numerous papers in scientific journals and given talks to both scientific and general audiences. He has discussed his work on such programs as NBC Nightly News, CBS Sunday Morning, and NPR Weekend Edition, and it was featured for a full episode of the Netflix series, Surviving Death.