Wendy Hasenkamp

Wendy Hasenkamp serves as science director at the Mind & Life Institute. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from Emory University in 2005, and spent her early career studying schizophrenia from molecular, physiological, and cognitive perspectives. Her main interest is in understanding how subjective experience is represented in the brain, and how the mind and brain can be transformed through experience and practice to enhance flourishing. Wendy's later research examines the neural correlates of meditation, with a focus on the shifts between mind wandering and attention. She has also contributed to neuroscience curriculum development, teaching, and textbook creation for the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, which aims to integrate science into the Tibetan monastic education system in India.