Pierre Magistretti President, Agalma Foundation; Professor, Brain Mind Institute and Professor, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, University of Lausanne Medical School Pierre Magistretti received his M.D. from the University of Geneva in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California at San Diego in 1982. He is Professor and former Director (2005-2012) of the Brain Mind Institute and Professor at the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience at the University of Lausanne Medical School.… read more »
Farzad Mahootian Faculty of Liberal Studies, New York University Farzad Mahootian is a Clinical Associate Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University since 2010. He has an interdisciplinary background (PhD Philosophy, Fordham; MS Chemistry, Georgetown). His research focuses on interactions between philosophy, science and society within the mythological imagination of technoscience and with guidance from process philosophy, biomimicry, artificial intelligence, and premodern sciences.… read more »
George Makari Director, The DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College Historian, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist George Makari is the Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where for over two decades he has led efforts to integrate humanistic scholarship into mind/brain medicine and science.… read more »
Roger Malina Roger Malina is an ArtScience Researcher, Space Scientist and Astronomer and Editor. He co directs the ArtSciLab at UTD Dallas which works on projects that cannot be accomplished unless artists and scientists work together, and on projects in Experimental Publishing. The latest project is the ARTECA art science technology aggregator with MIT Press and MIT.… read more »
Peter Malinowski Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liverpool John Moores University Peter Malinowski, PhD, is the founding director of the Meditation and Mindfulness Research Group at the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour, Liverpool John Moores University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. In his work he builds on his expertise in Cognitive Neuroscience and on his extensive experience in practicing and teaching meditation within the Karma Kagyu / Diamond Way tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.… read more »
Carol Mandel Dean, NYU Division of Libraries Carol A. Mandel is Dean of the NYU Division of Libraries, which includes NYU’s libraries in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai; along with Campus Media Services, University Archives, and the NYU Press. She has been a leading figure in research librarianship during its turn of the 20th-century transformation in a digital environment.… read more »
Alberto Manguel Writer and translator Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator and critic. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and received numerous international awards, among others the Formentor Prize 2017 and the Gutenberg Prize 2018. Until August 2018, he was the director of the Argentine National Library.… read more »
Eric R. Marcus Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Dr. Eric R. Marcus is Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he is a training and supervising analyst. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was formerly president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric Association of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine.… read more »
Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, New York University, and Director, NYU Center for Language and Music Gary Marcus, described by the New York Times as “one of the country’s best known cognitive psychologists”, has published numerous articles on language, evolution, computation, and cognitive development, in leading journals such as Science and Nature. He is the author of four books, including: Kluge; The Algebraic Mind; and the New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero.… read more »
James Marcus Editor, Translator, & Critic James Marcus is the author of Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut. He edited and introduced Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage and has translated seven books from the Italian, including Giacomo Casanova’s The Duel.… read more »
Charles Marmar Lucius N. Littauer Professor & Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health Director of the NYU Langone Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD Charles R. Marmar, MD is Lucius N. Littauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, and Director of the NYU Langone Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD. Dr. Marmar’s major research interests are Posttraumatic stress disorder, peritraumatic dissociation, peritraumatic distress, Vietnam Veterans, police officers, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, risk factors, MRI, MRS, fMRI, acoustic startle, cortisol, HPA axis, catecholamines, neurogenetics, polysomnography, pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, ethnicity, bereavement, and death notification.… read more »
Susana Martinez-Conde Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Susana Martinez-Conde is an award-winning neuroscientist, author, and professor at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University. She is the founder and Executive Director of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, which inspired her most recent book, “Champions of Illusion,” published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.… read more »
Karen Maschke Researcher Scholar, The Hastings Center Karen J. Maschke is a Research Scholar at the Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York. She has a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and was a Bioethics Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, an academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio.… read more »
Christopher Mason Assistant Professor in Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Computational Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College Christopher E. Mason is Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine. Professor Mason also holds appointments in the Tri-Institutional Program on Computational Biology and Medicine (Cornell, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University), and at the Weill Cornell Cancer Center, where he is the director of the Single Molecule Research Lab.… read more »
Pascal Massie Associate Professor of Philosophy, Miami University Pascal Massie was educated in France (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Agrégation) and completed his PhD at Vanderbilt University. He is currently associate professor at Miami University. His work focuses on Ancient and Medieval philosophy as well as contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Contingency, Time and Possibility; an essay on Aristotle and Duns Scotus (Lexington).… read more »
Stephen Massimilla Stephen Massimilla is a poet, scholar, professor, and painter. He holds an M.F.A. in Writing and Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, with a focus on poetry, from Columbia University. His new multi-genre volume, Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo, 2016), won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, and others.… read more »
Tim Maudlin Professor of Philosophy, New York University Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B. A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale and his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His work centers on the interpretation of physical theory: how the mathematical structures used in physics may be understood as presenting a physical account of the world.… read more »
Shane Mayak Shane Mayak is a biologist and founder of Ligo Project, a non-profit focused on connecting science to art, culture, and community. She studies the immune system, biological microenvironments, and how cells communicate with each other and their surroundings. Her main interest is in learning how immune cells and the biological processes and structures that control them can go awry in diseases such as cancer.… read more »
Barry Mazur Gerhard Gade University Professor, Harvard University Barry Mazur is a mathematician at Harvard University who has often taught courses in History of Science and Philosophy. His books include: Imagining Numbers (particularly the squareroot of minus fifteen) (Farrar Straus and Giroux); Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis, written with William Stein (Cambridge University Press) and he has edited with Apostolos Doxiadis the book of essays Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative (Princeton University Press).… read more »
Jame McCray Jame McCray is an Environmental Social Scientist at the Delaware Sea Grant. She is also a modern dancer, currently working on a component of “Same Stories, Different Countries,” a student project creating dances based on the science behind renewable energy in the U.S.… read more »
Kristopher McDaniel Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Kris McDaniel has a B.A. in philosophy from Western Washington University and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After graduating in 2004, he took a position at Syracuse University, and stayed there until the summer of 2019. … read more »
Sam McDougle Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University Samuel McDougle earned his BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Vassar College in 2009 and his PhD in Neuroscience and Psychology from Princeton University in 2018. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, Sam joined Yale’s Psychology Department in 2020 as an assistant professor.… read more »
Paula McDowell Professor of English, New York University Paula McDowell is Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of books and essays addressing “media effects” from the eighteenth century to today, including The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730 (Oxford) and The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Chicago), which won the John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies.… read more »
John McGann Director, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University Professor of Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience, Psychology Department, Rutgers University Dr. John McGann is the Director of the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science and a tenured Professor of Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at Rutgers. He runs the McGann Laboratory on the Neurobiology of Sensory Cognition, which uses the olfactory system of humans and rodent models to explore how organisms learn about and interpret their sensory world.… read more »
Sophie McIntosh Playwright Co-founder, Good Apples Collective Sophie McIntosh is a New York–based playwright and the co-founder of Good Apples Collective, a developmental orchard for new theatrical works that she leads alongside director Nina Goodheart. Her writing celebrates queer communities, gives voice to women’s experiences, and lovingly riffs on the cynical sincerity of young adults.… read more »
Darrin McMahon Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College, and formerly the Ben Weider Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, where he taught from 2004-2014. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD in 1998, McMahon is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), which has been translated into twelve languages, and was awarded Best Books of the Year honors for 2006 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Library Journal, and Slate Magazine; and Divine Fury: A History of Genius, published with Basic Books.… read more »
John McQuaid Journalist & Author John McQuaid is a journalist and author of Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat (Scribner, 2015), on the biology, history, and cultures of flavor. He has written on science and the environment for publications including Smithsonian and Scientific American, and won many national journalism awards, including sharing Pulitzer Prizes for a series on global fisheries collapses and for coverage of Hurricane Katrina while at the New Orleans Times-Picayune (after writing a series on hurricane risk that anticipated the disaster).… read more »
Tracey Meares Walton Hale Hamilton Professor, Yale Law School Founding Director, Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School View Papers / Presentations » Tracey L. Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and a Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2007, serving as Max Pam Professor and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice.… read more »
Mustafa Menai Lecturer of Urdu in the South Asia Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania Mustafa Menai is Lecturer of Urdu at the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Studies Department. His interests include the pedagogy of teaching language through literature and experimenting with different poetic structures such as ghazal, nazm, and haiku.… read more »
Daphne Merkin Novelist & Critic Daphne Merkin is a novelist and critic who has made a name for herself with her often-unnerving candor and forthright attitude towards issues of family, religion, money, and sex as well as her ability to straddle the High/Low cultural divide. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in book publishing for six years as first a senior editor and then associate publisher, acquiring fiction and non-fiction.… read more »
Robert Michels Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College Robert Michels, M.D. is the Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where he previously served as Provost, Dean, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. He is former Joint Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and a former Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.… read more »
Kenneth Miller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University Kenneth Miller is the Peter Taylor Professor of Neuroscience, co-Director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and co-Director of the Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Reed College, his M.S. and Ph.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University, and completed his postdoctoral work at UCSF and Caltech.… read more »
Jeffrey Miron Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, Harvard University Jeffrey Miron is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. Dr. Miron has previously served on the faculties of the University of Michigan and Boston University; at the latter, he was Department chairman for six years.… read more »
Mark Mitton Magician Mark Mitton is a magician who is fascinated by using magic to better understand how we see the world. He performs magic and produces unique entertainment around the world, and explores the limits and potential of perception. Mark’s specialty is physical misdirection, or what some call “embodied cognition”.… read more »
Yalda Moayedi Assistant Professor, New York University Dr. Yalda Moayedi is an Assistant Professor at the Pain Research Center in the Department of Molecular Pathobiology at New York University College of Dentistry. Her research focuses on the biology of somatosensory neurons that innervate the oral cavity and upper airway, investigating how information from these neurons guides oral functions such as flavor perception, feeding mechanics, airway protection, and vocalization.… read more »
Barbara Montero Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Barbara Montero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Her research concerns two notions of “body”: body as the physical or material substance of the world, and body as the moving, breathing, flesh and blood instrument we use when we run, walk, dance, or play. One… read more »
Donald Moss Program Chair of APsaA With 40+ years of clinical experience, author of 4 books, 60+ articles, winner of the Elizabeth Young-Bruehl award from the IPA for his work against prejudice, current Program Chair of APsaA, Moss is a founding member of Green Gang, a group of analysts and scientists focusing on climate change and its denial.… read more »
John Murray Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Physics, Yale University School of Medicine is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Physics at Yale University School of Medicine, where he directs a research program in computational neuroscience with a focus on computational models of neuropsychiatric disorders. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at New York University.… read more »