Director

Matthew D. Sacchet, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Meditation Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Faculty, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Hospital
Faculty, Spirituality and Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital
Faculty, Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University
Faculty, Harvard Brain Science Initiative, Harvard University

Postdoctoral Researchers

Avijit Chowdhury, Ph.D.

National University of Singapore

Winson Yang, Ph.D.

Texas Tech University

Graduate Students

Umay Demir, M.S.

Utrecht University

Hoki Fung, M.S.

University College London

Saampras Ganesan, M.Eng.

University of Melbourne

Rosalind McAlpine, M.Res.

University College London

Liam McClintock, M.S.

King's College London

Idil Sezer, M.Sc.

Sorbonne University

Program Managers and Senior Research Assistants

Megan Eckman, B.S.

Northeastern University

Poorvikalyani Keshava Mandayam, M.A.

Columbia University

Research Assistants

Vanessa Cha

Yi Gu

Riley Hoffman

Bavesh Matapathi

Ruby Potash

Joseph Valenti


Open Positions

Postdoctoral Researchers



Affiliated Faculty

Jagpreet Chhatwal, Ph.D.

Director, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Maurizio Fava, M.D.

Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital
Executive Director, MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute
Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Harvard Med School
Slater Family Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Randy L. Gollub, M.D./Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Director for Translational Research, Division of Psychiatric
   Neuroimaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
Chair, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Gregory L. Fricchione, M.D.

Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, MGH
Founding Director, Chester M. Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry, MGH
Mind Body Medicine Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Med School

Sara W. Lazar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Director, Lazar Lab for Meditation Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

Joshua L. Roffman, M.D./Ph.D.

Director, Early Brain Development Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Director, Mass General Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Director, Division of Psychiatric Neuroimaging, MGH
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Bruce R. Rosen, M.D./Ph.D.

Director, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Hospital
Vice Chair of Research in Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Scientific Director, Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics, MGH
Robbins Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Jerold F. Rosenbaum, M.D.

Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders, MGH
Director, Center for Neuroscience of Psychedelics, Mass General Hospital
Stanley Cobb Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Hospital

David H. Rosmarin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Director, Spirituality & Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital

Collaborators (incomplete)

Andrea Alamaia, Ph.D.

French National Centre for Scientific Res

Selen Atasoy, Ph.D.

Oxford University

Laima Baltusis, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Marta Bianciardi, Ph.D.

Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Medical School

James H. Bishop, Ph.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine

Judson A. Brewer, M.D. Ph.D.

Brown University

Bruno A. Cayoun, D.Psych.

MiCBT Institute

Peter K. Y. Chan, M.D.

University of British Columbia

Eric L. Garland, Ph.D.

University of Utah

Andrea D. Grabovac, M.D.

University of British Columbia

Nickolas Grabovac

Meditation teacher and author

Gary H. Glover, Ph.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine

Ian H. Gotlib, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Roberto Goya-Maldonado, M.D.

University of Göttingen

Tiffany C. Ho, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

S. M. Hadi Hosseini, Ph.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine

Caroline C. Kaufman, Ph.D.

McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Morten L. Kringelbach, D.Phil

Oxford and Aarhus Universities

Andrew D. Krystal, M.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Ruben E. Laukkonen, Ph.D.

Free University Amsterdam

Michael Lifshitz, Ph.D.

McGill University

Emily K. Lindsay, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

Hesheng Liu, Ph.D.

Medical University of South Carolina

Christopher H. Miller, Ph.D.

California State University, Fresno

Diego A. Pizzagalli, Ph.D.

McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Nicco Reggente, Ph.D.

Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies

Soham Rej, M.D.

McGill University

Joseph L. Sanguinetti, Ph.D.

University of Arizona

Heleen Slagter, Ph.D.

Free University Amsterdam

Terje Sparby, Ph.D.

University of Witten/Herdecke

Moria Smoski, Ph.D.

Duke University

Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D.

Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Medical School

Christopher Timmermann, Ph.D.

Imperial College London

Remko van Lutterveld, Ph.D.

Dutch Ministry of Defense

Nolan R. Williams, M.D.

Stanford University School of Medicine

Malcolm G. Wright, Ph.D.

Massey Univeristy

Shinzen Young

University of Arizona

Andrew Zalesky, Ph.D.

University of Melbourne

Martin Zhang, M.D. Ph.D.

Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Medical School

COORDINATE-MDD Consortium

Consortium Chair: Cynthia H. Y. Fu, M.D. Ph.D.

Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium

Consortium Director: Daniel Ingram, M.D.

ENIGMA Depression, Bipolar, et cetera

Selected Chairs: Lianne Schmaal Ph.D. and Paul Thompson Ph.D.

Multisite Resting-state fMRI Initiative (PsyMRI)

Consortium Director: Martin Walter, M.D.

Alumni / Prior Mentees (incomplete)

Micah Breiger

Research Assistant to M.D.
Harvard Medical School

M. Catalina Camacho

Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis

Sarah E. Chang

Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles

Carlos G. Correa

Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D.
Princeton University

Monica E. Ellwood-Lowe

Research Assistant to Psychology Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley

Satish Jaiswal

Visiting Scholar to Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, San Diego

Monica Kullar

Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D.
University of Cambridge

Emily E. Livermore

Research Assistant to Psychology Psy.D.
PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium

Adam R. Pines

Research Assistant to Neuroscience Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

Omar Riaz

Res Asst to Software Eng Robotics/Controls
Boston Dynamics

Anastasia Ryhanych

Research Asst to M.D.
University of California, San Diego

Praveen Suthaharan

Summer Student to Neuroscience Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine

Shane Walsh

Research Assistant to Engineer
MathWorks (MATLAB)