Research Team
The Shamatha Project involves a collaborative team of over 30 investigators and consulting scientists from universities across the United States and Europe.
Principal Investigator:
Clifford Saron, Ph.D.
Contemplative Director:
Alan Wallace, Ph.D.
Senior Investigators:
Emilio Ferrer, Ph.D.
Barry Giesbrecht, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara)
George R. Mangun, Ph.D.
Erika Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Phillip Shaver, Ph.D.
Current Staff and Trainees:
Stephen Aichele
Tonya Jacobs, Ph.D.
Brandon King
Katherine MacLean, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins)
Baljinder Sahdra, Ph.D.
Manish Saggar (UT Austin)
Anthony Zanesco
Former Staff and Trainees:
David Bridwell (UC Irvine)
Shiri Lavy
Consulting Scientists and Co-Investigators:
Ruth Baer, Ph.D. (U Kentucky)
Susan Bauer-Wu, Ph.D. (Emory)
Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Jens Blechert, Ph.D. (Stanford)
Karen Bales, Ph.D. (UC Davis)
Richard Davidson, Ph.D. (U Wisconsin-Madison)
Mingzhou Ding (U Florida)
Firdaus Dhabhar, Ph.D. (Stanford)
Paul Ekman, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Elissa Epel, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Paul Grossman, Ph.D. (U Basel Hospital)
Amishi Jha, Ph.D. (U Pennsylvania)
Jue Lin, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Margaret Kemeny, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Synthia Mellon, Ph.D. (UC San Francisco)
Antoine Lutz, Ph.D. (U Wisconsin-Madison)
Charles Raison, M.D. (Emory)
Matthieu Ricard (Shechen Monastery)
Jonathan Schooler, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara)
Akaysha Tang, Ph.D. (U New Mexico)
Ewa Wojciulik, Ph.D. (UC Davis)
Owen Wolkowitz, M.D. (UC San Francisco)