Dr. Antoine Lutz is a director of research at the French Medical Research Institute (INSERM) in the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CNRL). He did his PhD in cognitive neurosciences in Paris, France, with Francisco Varela on the first-person dimension of attention. During his postdoctoral work with...
Frédéric Lopez is a journalist and a TV producer. He presented the following France 2 TV shows: "Panique dans l’oreillette", "La parenthèse inattendue", "Mille et une vies" and now "Rendez vous en terre inconnue" rated as the French viewers’ favorite TV show. He discovered meditation eight years...
Journalist on Radio France Internationale. Producer of the scientific program Autour de la Question. One hour live radio talk show with researchers from all fields and horizons about the mutations and evolution of humankind. The aim is to build bridges and not walls between men...
Jean-Philippe Lachaux is Director of Research INSERM, at Lyon Neuroscience Research Center. He focuses his research on attention and concentration neuronal mechanisms with a special interest in questions we all ask ourselves daily: why are we easily distracted? Is focusing based on effort? How is attention improving...
Perla Kaliman holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. She has developed her scientific activity at the Universities in Buenos Aires, Nice, San Diego and Barcelona. Currently, she is a research associate at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California at Davis; collaborator of...
Journalist, speaker and writer, Aurélie Godefroy presents the program Sagesses Bouddhisteson France 2 TV channel and collaborates with the newspaper Le Monde des Religions and the magazines Sens et Santé, Ultreia and Question de in which she was the coordinator for the ones dedicated to body and meditation. She is the author of Rites et...
French actress, singer-songwriter, musician, environmentalist, and spokesperson for Greenpeace who achieved international fame with the film La Vie en Rose (2007). She is the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two César Awards, a European Award, and a Lumières...
Benoît Corboz is a sound builder. When he traded his favorite building game for the family piano at the age of 12, without knowing it, he just opened the door to a vast, mysterious, captivating new world. Yet, his new game rules have not changed,...
Gaël Chételat (PhD, HDR;) is Director of Research at Inserm. She is responsible of a research team named «Multimodal Neuroimaging and Lifestyle in Ageing and Dementia». She has published more than 140 articles on neuroimaging in ageing and dementia. Her work is devoted to the understanding...
Guido Bondolfi is full professor at the Faculty of Medecine of the University of Geneva and chief medical officer of the service of liaison psychiatry of the Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland. He graduated in medicine at the University «La Sapienza» in Rome and trained in...