Mind and Life Fellows are a selected group of distinguished scientists, scholars, and contemplative practitioners who support the Mind and Life mission and strategy by advising on strategy and programs, responding to open comment periods and planning and participating in Mind and Life activities. The term is three years, subject to Board review.
Mind and Life Fellows are selected from current and past board members, Mind and Life meeting speakers and panelists, Mind and Life Summer Research Institute faculty, Mind and Life planning committee members, Core members of MLERN (Mind and Life Education Research Network) and those who have received Mind and Life research funding.
Members are chosen from the following areas with respect for gender and ethnic diversity:
- Basic Science
- Clinical Science
- Social science
- Education research
- Humanities
- Contemplative scholar
- Contemplative practice
List of Fellows
Adam Anderson, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
Anthony Back, M.D.
University of Washington
Larry Barsalou, Ph.D.
Emory University
http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/index.html
Dan Batson, Ph.D.
University of Kansas
Peter Baumann
Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, FAAN
Emory University
http://www.emory.edu/ECCS
Bhikku Bodhi
http://www.bodhimonastery.net/bm/
Julie Brefczynski-Lewis, Ph.D.
West Virginia University
http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/Radio/Faculty-And-Staff/Faculty/JBLewis.aspx
Willoughby Britton, Ph.D.
Brown University
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Willoughby_Britton
John Canti, M.A., M.B., B.Chir.
Linda Carlson, Ph.D.
Univeristy of Calgary
www.lindacarlson.ca
Richard Davidson, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sona Dimidjian, Ph.D.
University of Colorado
Georges Dreyfus, Ph.D.
Williams College
John Dunne, Ph.D.
Emory University
Jacque Eccles, Ph.D.
Univeristy of Michigan
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/garp/
Stuart Eisendrath, M.D.
Unversity of California, San Francisco
http://psych.ucsf.edu/faculty.aspx?id=594
Paul Ekman, Ph.D.
Paul Ekman Group (PEG) LLC
University of California, San Francisco
www.paulekman.com
Adam Engle, J.D.
Mind & Life Institute
Elissah Eppel, Ph.D.
Unversity of California, San Francisco
http://www.chc.ucsf.edu/coast/faculty_epel.htm
Brent Field, Ph.D.
Princeton University
www.bfield.org
Wulstan Fletcher
Barb Fredrickson, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
www.positiveemotions.org
David Fresco, Ph.D.
Kent State University
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dfresco/
Rahul Garg, Ph.D.
IBM T. J. Watson research center
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/garg.index.html
Rip Gellein, M.B.A.
Mind & Life Institute
Rupert Gethin, Ph.D.
University of Bristol, UK
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society
www.dharma.org
Dan Goleman, Ph.D.
Author, psychologist
Sherryl Goodman, Ph.D.
Emory University
http://www.psychology.emory.edu/clinical/goodman/index.html
Marcia Grabowecky, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/faculty_individual_pages/Grabowecky.htm
Mark Greenberg, Ph.D.
Penn State University
http://www.prevention.psu.edu/
Joan Halifax, Ph.D., Roshi
Upaya Zen Center
Bill Harbaugh, Ph.D.
University of Oregon
http://harbaugh.org
Anne Harrington, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Zara Houshmand
Mind & Life Institute writer
Patricia Jennings, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
http://prevention.psu.edu/people/Jennings_bio_page.html
Amishi Jha, Ph.D.
University of Miami
http://attention.psy.miami.edu
www.mindbodyresearch.org
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.
Institute for Tibetan Classics
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
U Mass Medical School
Rajesh Kasturirangan, Ph.D.
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
http://www.rajeshkasturirangan.com
Al Kaszniak, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
Anne Klein, Ph.D.
Rice University
Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.
Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
www.jackkornfield.org
Linda Lantieri, M.A.
Inner Resilience Program
www.lindalantieri.org
Richard Layard, Ph.D.
London School of Economics
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/layard
Antoine Lutz, Ph.D.
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Richard Maddock, M.D.
University of California-Davis
http://ucdirc.ucdavis.edu/people/maddock.php
David E. Meyer, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~smeyer/demeyer/
Yoshio Nakamura, Ph.D.
University of Utah
Geshe Lobsang Negi
Emory University
http://www.tibet.emory.edu/
Ken Paller, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/faculty_individual_pages/Paller.htm
Charles Raison, M.D.
Emory University School of Medicine
Matthieu Ricard, Ph.D.
Shechen Monastery
Robert Roeser, Ph.D.
Portland State University
http://www.robertroeser.com/
Hal Roth, Ph.D.
Brown University
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Religious_Studies/people/facultypage.php?id=10131
Bunker Roy
Barefoot College
http://www.barefootcollege.org/
Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society
www.sharonsalzberg.com
Geshe Ngawang Samten
Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies
Cliff Saron, Ph.D.
University of California – Davis
Zindel Segal, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
www.mbct.com
Bennett Shapiro, Ph.D.
Merck Research Laboratories, (Retired)
Joan Silk, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/silk
Tania Singer, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
http://www.cbs.mpg.de/staff/singer-11258
Michael Spezio, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
http://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/michael-spezio.php
PN Tandon, Ph.D.
National Brain Research Centre, India
Evan Thompson, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
John Tresch, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/faculty/department_faculty/john_tresch_phd_assistant_prof.php
David Vago, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
http://mindofvago.com
Martijn van Beek
University of Aarhus
http://person.au.dk/en/etnomvb@hum.au.dk
B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D.
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D.
Amherst College
www.arthurzajonc.org
Phil Zelazo, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/icd/faculty/Zelazo.html
