Faculty and Staff
Julie Exline, Ph.D.
Director and
Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• extraordinary experiences and their psychosocial implications
• spiritual struggles, afterlife beliefs, and supernatural attributions
Elliott Gish, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Research Interests:
• nature of consciousness
• lucid dreaming
• altered states
David Acunzo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• altered states
• hypnosis and suggestion
• neural correlates of psi experiences
Philip Cozzolino, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• near-death experiences
• children who report memories of previous lives
• psychological effects of mortality awareness
Ross Dunseath, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Research
Research Interests:
• biomedical instrumentation
• concurrent EEG and functional MRI brain imaging
Bruce Greyson, M.D.
Chester F. Carlson
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• near-death experiences
• crisis apparitions
• death-bed visions
Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D.
Professor of Research
Research Interests:
• neurophysiological correlates of psi
• altered states of consciousness
Marieta Pehlivanova, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• near-death experiences
• children who report memories of previous lives
• after-death communication
• personality and cognitive correlates of psi experiences and beliefs
• altered states of consciousness
Kim Penberthy, Ph.D.
ABPP, Chester F. Carlson
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• altered states of consciousness
• mindfulness and health
• hospice experiences
Jim B. Tucker, M.D.
Bonner-Lowry Professor
Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• children who report memories of previous lives
• nature of consciousness
Marina Weiler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor o
f Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
Research Interests:
• altered states
• out-of-body experiences
• mediumship
• telepathy
Hemanth Karnati, B.S.
Lab Specialist Intermediate
Research Interests:
• neural correlates of psi experiences
• nature of consciousness
• altered states
Saeedeh Sadeghi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher & Rothenberg Research Fellow
Research Interests:
• children with past-life statements
• near-death experiences
• subjective experience of time and self-continuity
• altered states of consciousness
Fatma Wise, Ph.D.
Research Specialist Intermediate
Research Interests:
• prolonged grief disorder
• after death communications
• mindfulness
Mary-Kate Wagamon, M.Litt.
Administrative Coordinator
Peggy Bishop
Research Communications Assistant
Andie Moreno
Social Media and Website Manager