The Academicians of WAAC
Morten Peter Meldal
- Name: Morten Peter Meldal
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022)
- Field of Research: Copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (click chemistry)
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
- Name: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2008)
- Field of Research: Discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Takaaki Kajita
- Name: Takaaki Kajita
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Physics (2015)
- Field of Research: Atmospheric neutrino oscillations
H. Robert Horvitz
- Name: H. Robert Horvitz
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)
- Field of Research: Programmed cell death in C. elegans; neural circuits
James J. Heckman
- Name: James J. Heckman
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2000)
- Field of Research: Economics; behavioral modeling and consciousness
May-Britt Moser
- Name: May-Britt Moser
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(2014)
- Field of Research: Discovery of grid cells and spatial navigation
Ronald L. Rivest
- Name: Ronald L. Rivest
- Honors: WAAC Academician, ACM A.M. Turing Award (2002)
- Field of Research: RSA public-key cryptosystem
Laurent Itti
- Name: Laurent Itti
- Honors: WAAC Academician, IEEE Fellow (2017)
- Field of Research: Computational models of visual salience and attention
Li-Huei Tsai
- Name: Li-Huei Tsai
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2018)
- Field of Research: Alzheimer’s disease mechanisms; gamma-band stimulation
Lucia Regolin
- Name: Lucia Regolin
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Italian national research funding
- Field of Research: Animal cognition and consciousness; innate representations
Bruno van Swinderen
- Name: Bruno van Swinderen
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Australian Research Council funding
- Field of Research: Drosophila consciousness and sleep; cross-species consciousness
Barbara Tversky
- Name: Barbara Tversky
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fellow
- Field of Research: Cognitive psychology; spatial thinking and consciousness
Adam Zeman
- Name: Adam Zeman
- Honors: WAAC Academician, British Academy-related honors and book awards
- Field of Research: Aphantasia and mental imagery; consciousness and autobiographical memory
Andrew Adamatzky
- Name: Andrew Adamatzky
- Honors: WAAC Academician, British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow
- Field of Research: Unconventional computing and self-organization; cues to artificial consciousness
Adam Gazzaley
- Name: Adam Gazzaley
- Honors: WAAC Academician, U.S. National Institutes of Health funding
- Field of Research: Attention and aging; consciousness and cognitive control
Christoph Gerber
- Name: Christoph Gerber
- Honors: WAAC Academician, 2016 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
- Field of Research: Atomic force microscopy for biomolecular interactions
Barbara J. Sahakian
- Name: Barbara J. Sahakian
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the British Academy
- Field of Research: Cognitive enhancement and ethics; consciousness and decision-making
Arnaud Delorme
- Name: Arnaud Delorme
- Honors: WAAC Academician, CNRS awards
- Field of Research: EEG and meditation; oscillations of consciousness
Angela D. Friederici
- Name: Angela D. Friederici
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the German Academy of Sciences (2007)
- Field of Research: Neural basis of language processing
Elizabeth F. Loftus
- Name: Elizabeth F. Loftus
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1994)
- Field of Research: Malleability of human memory; eyewitness testimony
Douglas Medin
- Name: Douglas Medin
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Field of Research: Cognitive psychology; culture and consciousness
Ellen J. Langer
- Name: Ellen J. Langer
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fellow
- Field of Research: Psychology; mindfulness and consciousness
Diana Reiss
- Name: Diana Reiss
- Honors: WAAC Academician, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
- Field of Research: Dolphins and mirror self-recognition; animal consciousness
Dov Sagi
- Name: Dov Sagi
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Honors from the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Field of Research: Visual visibility and learning; thresholds of consciousness
Ehud Ahissar
- Name: Ehud Ahissar
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Head of Israel Science Foundation Center of Excellence
- Field of Research: Touch and active sensing; sensorimotor loops in consciousness
Friedemann Pulvermüller
- Name: Friedemann Pulvermüller
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the German Academy of Sciences
- Field of Research: Language and brain representations; consciousness and meaning
Gualtiero Piccinini
- Name: Gualtiero Piccinini
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Honors from philosophy and computing societies
- Field of Research: Mechanistic and computational theories of consciousness
Greg DeAngelis
- Name: Greg DeAngelis
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Field of Research: Depth perception and stereopsis; conscious perception
Erkki Oja
- Name: Erkki Oja
- Honors: WAAC Academician, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2015)
- Field of Research: Independent component analysis (ICA) and Hebbian learning
Giacomo Indiveri
- Name: Giacomo Indiveri
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Associate Fellow of Collegium Helveticum (Switzerland)
- Field of Research: Neuromorphic computing; cues to artificial consciousness
Ezequiel Morsella
- Name: Ezequiel Morsella
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Psychology society awards
- Field of Research: Passive frame theory; consciousness and action
Étienne Koechlin
- Name: Étienne Koechlin
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Field of Research: Prefrontal cortex and hierarchical control; conscious planning
Cathy J. Price
- Name: Cathy J. Price
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- Field of Research: Language networks and reading; conscious comprehension
Geraint Rees
- Name: Geraint Rees
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2010)
- Field of Research: Brain networks and computation
Seeram Ramakrishna
- Name: Seeram Ramakrishna
- Honors: WAAC Academician, International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, China Government Friendship Award (2024)
- Field of Research: Electrospun nanofibers; sustainable & circular materials; Materials–Devices–Systems roadmap; embodied intelligent systems
Fred H. Gage
- Name: Fred H. Gage
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1999)
- Field of Research: Adult neurogenesis and neural plasticity
Giacomo Rizzolatti
- Name: Giacomo Rizzolatti
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of multiple national academies
- Field of Research: Mirror neurons; self–other representation and consciousness
Jean Decety
- Name: Jean Decety
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Field of Research: Empathy and self–other representation; consciousness and sociality
David Gamez
- Name: David Gamez
- Honors: WAAC Academician, UK Research Council funding
- Field of Research: Machine consciousness; measures and evaluation of consciousness
Jean-Pierre Changeux
- Name: Jean-Pierre Changeux
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the French Academy of Sciences (1977)
- Field of Research: Allosteric receptor theory; neural basis of cognition
Julia B. Hirschberg
- Name: Julia B. Hirschberg
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow
- Field of Research: Speech processing; language–consciousness interaction
Andreas Bartels
- Name: Andreas Bartels
- Honors: WAAC Academician, German Research Foundation (DFG) funding
- Field of Research: Vision and consciousness; feedback and context
Kenneth Williford
- Name: Kenneth Williford
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Philosophy society honors
- Field of Research: Phenomenology and time; philosophy of consciousness
Luigi De Gennaro
- Name: Luigi De Gennaro
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Italian National Research Council funding
- Field of Research: Sleep and wakefulness; levels of consciousness
Mara Mather
- Name: Mara Mather
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fellow
- Field of Research: Attention and emotion; aging and consciousness
Gerwin Schalk
- Name: Gerwin Schalk
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow
- Field of Research: Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) and communication; disorders of consciousness
Michael N. Shadlen
- Name: Michael N. Shadlen
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Field of Research: Neural mechanisms of decision-making and consciousness
Michael X. Cohen
- Name: Michael X. Cohen
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) funding
- Field of Research: Neural oscillations and information integration; metrics of consciousness
Ned Block
- Name: Ned Block
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Field of Research: Philosophy; phenomenal vs. access consciousness
Michael Graziano
- Name: Michael Graziano
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Field of Research: Cognitive neuroscience; Attention Schema Theory
Philip H. S. Torr
- Name: Philip H. S. Torr
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the Royal Society (2023)
- Field of Research: Deep learning for scene understanding and recognition
Peter Bentley
- Name: Peter Bentley
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Computer society and popular science awards
- Field of Research: Evolution and self-organization; cues to artificial consciousness
Roi Cohen Kadosh
- Name: Roi Cohen Kadosh
- Honors: WAAC Academician, British Academy research fellowship honors
- Field of Research: Non-invasive stimulation and cognition; consciousness and numerical processing
Rattan Lal
- Name: Rattan Lal
- Honors: WAAC Academician, World Food Prize (2020)
- Field of Research: Soil carbon sequestration; sustainable agriculture practices
Roi Reichart
- Name: Roi Reichart
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Israel Science Foundation funding
- Field of Research: Language and AI; interpretability and consciousness
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Ruzena Bajcsy
- Name: Ruzena Bajcsy
- Honors: WAAC Academician, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1998)
- Field of Research: Computer vision
Risto J. Ilmoniemi
- Name: Risto J. Ilmoniemi
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Finnish Academy (Academician)
- Field of Research: Neurotechnology; consciousness and cortical excitability
Stephen P. Boyd
- Name: Stephen P. Boyd
- Honors: WAAC Academician, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2017)
- Field of Research: Convex optimization and control engineering
Ron Chrisley
- Name: Ron Chrisley
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fulbright Scholar
- Field of Research: Machine Consciousness and Theories of Representation
Maiken Nedergaard
- Name: Maiken Nedergaard
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Member Academia Europaea, etc
- Field of Research: Glymphatic system; sleep- and consciousness-driven clearance
Włodzisław Duch
- Name: Włodzisław Duch
- Honors: WAAC Academician, President of ENNS, etc
- Field of Research: Cognitive architectures and consciousness, Artificial life
Minoru Asada
- Name: Minoru Asada
- Honors: WAAC Academician, IEEE Fellow, etc
- Field of Research: Cognitive Developmental Robotics
Nicola S. Clayton
- Name: Nicola S. Clayton
- Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the Royal Society, etc
- Field of Research: Corvid Cognition and Future Planning; Consciousness Indicators
Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
- Name: Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
- Honors: WAAC Academician, etc
- Field of Research: Motor Coding and Conscious Communication
Nilli Lavie
- Name: Nilli Lavie
- Honors: WAAC Academician,FBA, etc
- Field of Research: Load Theory; the relationship between attention and consciousness.