Naotsugu Tsuchiya is a Professor of Consciousness Science at Monash University whose research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness, perception, and subjective experience. He is internationally known for his work on visual awareness, unconscious processing, and the relationship between brain activity and conscious states. Professor Tsuchiya combines experimental psychology, neuroscience, and computational approaches to…
Michael C. Wiest, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Wellesley College, where he investigates the neural basis of perception and consciousness. His work has implications for understanding human disorders that disrupt perceptual integration, such as Alzheimer’s disease, dyslexia, and attention deficit disorders. His research aims to uncover how distributed patterns of neural activity…
Thomas G. Brophy, PhD, is President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). He previously served as president of California Institute for Human Science (CIHS). His tenure as president of CIHS oversaw a many-year effort to achieve regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Colleges and Universities Commission (WSCUC) in 2021, for…
Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Faggin led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel’s microprocessor effort. While working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, he also created the self-aligned MOS…
Jimo Borjigin is an Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology as well as an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore, MD.
Ivette Fuentes is a Professor of Quantum Physics at the University of Southampton and Emmy Fellow (Fellow by Special Election) at Keble College, University of Oxford. Her work considers fundamental quantum mechanics, quantum optics and their interplay with general relativity. She is interested in how quantum information theory can make use of relativistic effects.
Dr. Imants Barušs is a professor in the Department of Psychology at King’s University College. With expertise in consciousness studies, Professor Barušs teaches undergraduate courses about consciousness, altered states of consciousness, and the psychology of religion and spirituality. His current research is concerned with apparent after-death communication with cell phones. He regularly supervises undergraduate theses…
Dr. Philip Kurian is a theoretical physicist, researching scientist, and essayist, serving as principal investigator and founding director of the Quantum Biology Laboratory at Howard University. Beginning his career as a math teacher in North Philadelphia, he completed his doctorate in physics after a stint at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Kurian is now the…
Vlatko Vedral FInstP is a Serbian-born British physicist. He is best known for his contributions to quantum information theory, quantum mechanics, and quantum entanglement. He is professor of quantum information science in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, concurrently holding the role of Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Vedral earned…
Daniel Ofir Whiteson is an American experimental particle physicist and professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is also the Vice-chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and computer science from Rice…
Priyamvada “Priya” Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist and professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University. She is the director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities. She is noted for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy, particularly in gravitational lensing and in models describing the assembly…
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, software engineer, software architect, and author. He is a vice president, fellow, and the CTO of Technology & Society at Google, where he leads the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team on basic research in AI and related fields. He is known for his work…