Mind & Life Fellows

Adam Anderson, Ph.D.
Cornell University

Elena Antonova, Ph.D.
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK

Joanna Arch, Ph.D.
University of Colorado–Boulder

James Austin, Ph.D.

Anthony Back, M.D.
University of Washington

Daniel Barbezat, Ph.D.
Amherst College

Larry Barsalou, Ph.D.
University of Glasgow, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology

Dan Batson, Ph.D.
University of Kansas (retired)

Susan Bauer-Wu, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
Mind & Life Institute, President

Peter Baumann
The Baumann Foundation

Kent Berridge, Ph.D.
University of Michigan

Mark Bertolini, MBA
Former Chairman, Aetna Inc.

Michel Bitbol, Ph.D.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Ph.D.
The Bodhi Monastery

Sarah Bowen, Ph.D.
Pacific University

Julie Brefczynski-Lewis, Ph.D.
West Virginia University

Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.
Brown University

Willoughby Britton, Ph.D.
Brown University

John Canti, M.A., M.B., B.Chir.
Tsadra Foundation

Linda Carlson, Ph.D.
University of Calgary, Canada

Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi, D.Phil.
Lancaster University, UK

Doris Chang, Ph.D.
New York University

Alejandro Chaoul, Ph.D.
Jung Center’s Mind Body Spirit Institute

Diana Chapman Walsh, Ph.D.
Wellesley College, President Emerita

Khen Rinpoche Jangchup Choeden, Abbot
Gaden Shartse Monastery, India

Kalina Christoff, Ph.D.
University of British Columbia, Canada

John Christopher, Ph.D.
Independent

George P. Chrousos, M.D.
University of Athens Medical School, Greece

Dekila Chungyalpa, M.A.
World Wildlife Fund
Yale University 2014 McCluskey Fellow

Jim Coan, Ph.D.
University of Virginia

Paul Condon, Ph.D.
Southern Oregon University

Lisette Cooper, Ph.D.
Athena Capital Advisors

J. David Creswell, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University

Geshe Dorji Damdul, Geshe
Tibet House, India

Nilanjana “Buju” Dasgupta, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Richard Davidson, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Martin Davidson, Ph.D.
University of Virginia

Marc-Henri Deroche, Ph.D.
Kyoto University

Gaelle Desbordes, Ph.D.
Mind & Life Institute

Sona Dimidjian, Ph.D.
University of Colorado

James R. Doty, M.D.
Stanford University

Andrew Dreitcer, Ph.D.
Claremont School of Theology

Georges Dreyfus, Ph.D.
Williams College

John Dunne, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin–Madison

John Durant, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Jacquelynne Eccles, Ph.D.
University of California–Irvine

Stuart Eisendrath, M.D.
University of California-San Francisco

Paul Ekman, Ph.D.
University of California–San Francisco, (retired);
Paul Ekman Group (PEG), LLC

Adam Engle
Mind & Life Institute, President Emeritus

Elissa Epel, Ph.D.
University of California–San Francisco

Monique Ernst, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health

Michael Eze, Ph.D.
University of Cambridge, University of Amsterdam

Norman Farb, Ph.D.
University of Toronto, Canada

Wendy Farley, Ph.D.
San Francisco Theological Seminary

Ernst Fehr, Ph.D.
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
Northeastern University

Brent Field, Ph.D.
Princeton University

Wulstan Fletcher
Tsadra Foundation

Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Ph.D.
Aarhus University, Denmark

Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina

Richard Freeman
Yoga Workshop

David Fresco, Ph.D.
Kent State University

Rahul Garg, Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Eric Garland, Ph.D.
University of Utah College of Social Work

Raymond L. Gellein, Jr., M.B.A.
Mind & Life Institute, Vice Chair, Treasurer

Bill George, M.B.A.
Harvard Business School

David Germano, Ph.D.
University of Virginia

Rupert Gethin, Ph.D.
University of Bristol, UK

Philippe Goldin, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society

Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Author

Sherryl Goodman, Ph.D.
Emory University

Marcia Grabowecky, Ph.D.
Northwestern University

Mark Greenberg, Ph.D.
Penn State University

Peter Grossenbacher, Ph.D.
Naropa University

Paul Grossman, Ph.D.
University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Tho Ha Vinh, Ph.D.
Gross National Happiness Centre, Bhutan

Joan Halifax, Ph.D., Roshi
Upaya Zen Center

Diego Hangartner, PharmD
Institute of Mental Balance and Universal Ethics

Bill Harbaugh, Ph.D.
University of Oregon

Anne Harrington, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Wendy Hasenkamp, Ph.D.
Mind & Life Institute

Maria Heim, Ph.D.
Amherst College

Barry Hershey, M.F.A.
Filmmaker

Zara Houshmand
Author, Translator

Yoshiro Imaeda, Ph.D.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Daniel Irurah, Ph.D.
University of the Witwatersrand

Carolyn Jacobs, Ph.D.
Dean Emerita, Smith School for Social Work

Patricia (Tish) Jennings, Ph.D.
University of Virginia

Amishi Jha, Ph.D.
University of Miami

Thupten Jinpa Langri, Ph.D.
Institute for Tibetan Classics, Canada
Mind & Life Institute, Chair

Bryce Johnson, Ph.D.
Exploratorium

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Rajesh Kasturirangan, Ph.D.
National Institute of Advanced Studies, India

Al Kaszniak, Ph.D.
University of Arizona

Catherine Kerr, Ph.D. (Deceased)
Brown University

Barry Kerzin
Altruism in Medicine Institute

Shinobu Kitayama, Ph.D.
University of Michigan

Anne Klein, Ph.D.
Rice University

Christof Koch, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology

Louis Komjathy, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar-Educator and Translator

Elisa Kozasa, Ph.D.
Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
Universidade  Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

Linda Lantieri, M.A.
Inner Resilience Program

Brooke Lavelle, Ph.D.
Courage of Care

Richard Layard, Ph.D.
London School of Economics, UK

Marc Lewis, Ph.D.
Retired Author

Sara Lewis, Ph.D.
Naropa University

Geshe Lhakdor, Geshe
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, India

Diana Liverman, Ph.D.
University of Arizona

Antoine Lutz, Ph.D.
Inserm, France

Richard Maddock, M.D.
University of California, Davis

Rhonda Magee, M.A., J.D.
University of San Francisco School of Law

John Makransky, Ph.D.
Boston College

Jennifer Mascaro, Ph.D.
Emory University School of Medicine

Erin McCarthy, Ph.D.
St. Lawrence University

Sara McClintock, Ph.D.
Emory University

Sallie McFague, Ph.D.
Vancouver School of Theology, Canada

David McMahan, Ph.D.
Franklin & Marshall College

David Meyer, Ph.D.
University of Michigan

Donald Morrison, M.B.A.
Research in Motion (Retired)

Yoshio Nakamura, Ph.D.
University of Utah

Geshe Dadul Namgyal
Emory University

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Ph.D.
Emory University
Drepung Losling Monastery

Lis Nielsen, Ph.D.
National Institute on Aging, NIH

Gregory Norris, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Andrew Olendzki, Ph.D.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

Brendan Ozawa-DeSilva, Ph.D.
Emory University

Chikako Ozawa-DeSilva, Ph.D.
Emory University

Giuseppe Pagnoni, Ph.D.
University of Modena, Italy

Ken Paller, Ph.D.
Northwestern University

Clare Palmer, D.Phil.
Texas A&M University

Sharon Parks, Th.D.
Leadership for the New Commons

Bobbi (Barbara) Patterson, Ph.D.
Emory University

Luiz Pessoa, Ph.D.
University of Maryland

Claire Petitmengin, Ph.D.
Institut Mines-Telecom, France

Sheryl Petty, Ed.D.
Equity, Personal Transformation & Systems Change Consultant
Movement Tapestries, LLC

john powell, J.D.
University of California–Berkeley

Charles Raison, M.D.
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, India

Laura Rendón, Ph.D.
University of Texas-San Antonio

Matthieu Ricard, Ph.D.
Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Pundarika Foundation

Andreas Roepstorff, Ph.D.
Aarhus University, Denmark

Robert Roeser, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University

Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis; Erika Rosenberg Consulting

Harold Roth, Ph.D.
Brown University

Bunker Roy
Barefoot College, India

Baljinder Sahdra, Ph.D.
Australian Catholic University, Australia

Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society

Geshe Ngawang Samten
Central University of Tibetan Studies, India

Saki Santorelli, Ed.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School (Retired)

Cliff Saron, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis

Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Ph.D.
University of British Columbia, Canada

Zindel Segal, Ph.D.
University of Toronto, Canada

Pamela Seigle, Ph.D.
Wellesley College

Peter Senge, Ph.D.
MIT Sloan School of Management

Catherine Shaddix, M.A.
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Baywell Psychiatry Group

Bennett Shapiro, Ph.D.
Merck Research Laboratories (retired)

Robert Sharf, Ph.D.
University of California–Berkeley

Shinsuke Shimojo, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology

Joan Silk, Ph.D.
University of California–Los Angeles

Tania Singer, Ph.D.
Social Neuroscience Lab, Max Planck Society, Germany

Wolf Singer, M.D., Ph.D.
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI)
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany

Theo Sowa, M.A.
African Women’s Development Fund

Michael Spezio, Ph.D.
Scripps College

Aaron Stern
Academy for the Love of Learning

P.N. Tandon, Ph.D.
President, National Brain Research Center, India

Ed Taylor
University of Washington

Mary Taylor
Yoga Workshop

Evan Thompson, Ph.D.
University of British Columbia, Canada

Hilary Tindle, M.D., MPH
Vanderbilt – Ingram Cancer Center

John Tresch, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

Jeanne Tsai, Ph.D.
Stanford University

David Vago, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University

Martijn van Beek, Ph.D.
University of Aarhus, Denmark

William Waldron, Ph.D.
Middlebury College

B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D.
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

Kirk Warren Brown, Ph.D.
Virginia Commonwealth University

Peter Wayne, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Helen Weng, Ph.D.
University of California–San Francisco

Rona Wilensky, Ph.D.
PassageWorks Institute

Carol Worthman, Ph.D.
Emory University

Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D.
Amherst University (retired)

Vicki Zakrzewski, Ph.D.
Greater Good Science Center

Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D.
Wake Forest School of Medicine

Phil Zelazo, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota