Faculty Bios

Clifford Saron, PhD, is recipient of the inaugural Templeton Prize Research Grant (2012), awarded in honor of H.H. Dalai Lama. Currently a Research Scientist at the … Read More

William Waldron, PhD, is the Chair of the Department of Religion at Middlebury College and has published extensively in Indian Buddhist philosophy of mind, focused on … Read More

Dr. Elena Antonova, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Her main research interest is the neuroscience of … Read More

Francisca Cho, PhD, is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Georgetown University. Her recent books, Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism (with Richard Squier, Routledge … Read More

Kalina Christoff, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her work focuses on understanding human thought, using a … Read More

Giovanna Colombetti

Cortland Dahl, PhD, is a research scientist at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His work focuses on developing theoretical … Read More

Gaëlle Desbordes, PhD, is a Principal Investigator at Harvard Medical School conducting research at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging within the Massachusetts General … Read More

Andrew Dreitcer, PhD, is Associate Professor of Spirituality, Co-Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion, Claremont School of Theology. He has directed a seminary program in … Read More

Shaun Gallagher, PhD, is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis. His areas of research include phenomenology and … Read More

David Germano, PhD is a Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia. UVA’s Tibetan Studies and Buddhist Studies programs are amongst the … Read More

Linda Heuman is a journalist and a visiting scholar in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University, where she is also affiliated with the Program in … Read More

Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and Director … Read More

David L. McMahan, PhD, is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. He is the co-editor of Buddhism, … Read More

Ken is Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His research has focused on human memory, consciousness, and related issues. … Read More

After studies in Buddhist philosophy and ten years of experience in information system design, Claire Petitmengin completed her PhD thesis under the supervision of Francisco Varela … Read More

David E. Presti, PhD is Teaching Professor of Neurobiology, Psychology, and Cognitive Science in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, … Read More

Professor Amir Raz, PhD, Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Canada, is a world leader in unlocking the brain substrates of … Read More

Catherine Shaddix, PsyD, began her training in Buddhist meditation and hatha yoga in 1991. She has studied with Tsoknyi Rinpoche for the past 14 years, and … Read More

Michael Sheehy, PhD, is the Director of Programs at the Mind & Life Institute where he leads interdisciplinary dialogues and educational programs in the contemplative sciences. … Read More

Martijn van Beek (Ph.D., Cornell 1996) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University in Denmark. He … Read More