The Academicians of WAAC

Morten Peter Meldal

Morten Peter Meldal portrait

  • 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

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi portrait

  • 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

Roi Reichart portrait

  • Name: Takaaki Kajita
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Physics (2015)
  • Field of Research: Atmospheric neutrino oscillations

H. Robert Horvitz

H. Robert Horvitz portrait

  • 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

James J. Heckman portrait

  • Name: James J. Heckman
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2000)
  • Field of Research: Economics; behavioral modeling and consciousness


May-Britt Moser

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

Ronald L. Rivest portrait

  • Name: Ronald L. Rivest
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, ACM A.M. Turing Award (2002)
  • Field of Research: RSA public-key cryptosystem


Laurent Itti

Laurent Itti portrait

  • Name: Laurent Itti
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, IEEE Fellow (2017)
  • Field of Research: Computational models of visual salience and attention


Li-Huei Tsai

Li-Huei Tsai portrait

  • 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

Lucia Regolin portrait

  • Name: Lucia Regolin
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Italian national research funding
  • Field of Research: Animal cognition and consciousness; innate representations

Bruno van Swinderen

Bruno van Swinderen portrait

  • Name: Bruno van Swinderen
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Australian Research Council funding
  • Field of Research: Drosophila consciousness and sleep; cross-species consciousness

Barbara Tversky

Barbara Tversky portrait

  • Name: Barbara Tversky
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fellow
  • Field of Research: Cognitive psychology; spatial thinking and consciousness

Adam Zeman

Adam Zeman portrait

  • 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

Andrew Adamatzky portrait

  • 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

Adam Gazzaley portrait

  • 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

Christoph Gerber portrait

  • Name: Christoph Gerber
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, 2016 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
  • Field of Research: Atomic force microscopy for biomolecular interactions

Barbara J. Sahakian

Barbara J. Sahakian portrait

  • 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

Arnaud Delorme portrait

  • Name: Arnaud Delorme
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, CNRS awards
  • Field of Research: EEG and meditation; oscillations of consciousness

Angela D. Friederici

Angela D. Friederici portrait

  • 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

Elizabeth F. Loftus portrait

  • 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

Douglas Medin portrait

  • 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

Ellen J. Langer portrait

  • Name: Ellen J. Langer
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fellow
  • Field of Research: Psychology; mindfulness and consciousness

Diana Reiss

Diana Reiss portrait

  • 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

Dov Sagi portrait

  • 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

Ehud Ahissar portrait

  • 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

Friedemann Pulvermüller portrait

  • 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

Gualtiero Piccinini portrait

  • Name: Gualtiero Piccinini
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Honors from philosophy and computing societies
  • Field of Research: Mechanistic and computational theories of consciousness

Greg DeAngelis

Greg DeAngelis portrait

  • 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

Erkki Oja portrait

  • Name: Erkki Oja
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2015)
  • Field of Research: Independent component analysis (ICA) and Hebbian learning

Giacomo Indiveri

Giacomo Indiveri portrait

  • Name: Giacomo Indiveri
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Associate Fellow of Collegium Helveticum (Switzerland)
  • Field of Research: Neuromorphic computing; cues to artificial consciousness

Ezequiel Morsella

Ezequiel Morsella portrait

  • Name: Ezequiel Morsella
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Psychology society awards
  • Field of Research: Passive frame theory; consciousness and action

Étienne Koechlin

Étienne Koechlin portrait

  • 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

Cathy J. Price portrait

  • Name: Cathy J. Price
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
  • Field of Research: Language networks and reading; conscious comprehension

Geraint Rees

Geraint Rees portrait

  • Name: Geraint Rees
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2010)
  • Field of Research: Brain networks and computation

Seeram Ramakrishna

Seeram Ramakrishna portrait

  • 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

Fred H. Gage portrait

  • 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

Giacomo Rizzolatti portrait

  • Name: Giacomo Rizzolatti
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Member of multiple national academies
  • Field of Research: Mirror neurons; self–other representation and consciousness

Jean Decety

Jean Decety portrait

  • 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

David Gamez portrait

  • Name: David Gamez
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, UK Research Council funding
  • Field of Research: Machine consciousness; measures and evaluation of consciousness

Jean-Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux portrait

  • 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

Julia B. Hirschberg portrait

  • 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

Andreas Bartels portrait

  • Name: Andreas Bartels
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, German Research Foundation (DFG) funding
  • Field of Research: Vision and consciousness; feedback and context

Kenneth Williford

Kenneth Williford portrait

  • Name: Kenneth Williford
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Philosophy society honors
  • Field of Research: Phenomenology and time; philosophy of consciousness

Luigi De Gennaro

Luigi De Gennaro portrait

  • Name: Luigi De Gennaro
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Italian National Research Council funding
  • Field of Research: Sleep and wakefulness; levels of consciousness

Mara Mather

Mara Mather portrait

  • Name: Mara Mather
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Fellow
  • Field of Research: Attention and emotion; aging and consciousness

Gerwin Schalk

Gerwin Schalk portrait

  • Name: Gerwin Schalk
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Fellow
  • Field of Research: Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) and communication; disorders of consciousness

Michael N. Shadlen

Michael N. Shadlen portrait

  • 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

Michael X. Cohen portrait

  • 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

Ned Block portrait

  • 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

Michael Graziano portrait

  • 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

Philip H. S. Torr portrait

  • 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

Peter Bentley portrait

  • 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

Roi Cohen Kadosh portrait

  • 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

Rattan Lal portrait

  • Name: Rattan Lal
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, World Food Prize (2020)
  • Field of Research: Soil carbon sequestration; sustainable agriculture practices

Roi Reichart

Roi Reichart portrait

  • 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

Roi Reichart portrait

  • Name: Ruzena Bajcsy
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1998)
  • Field of Research: Computer vision

Risto J. Ilmoniemi

Roi Reichart portrait

  • Name: Risto J. Ilmoniemi
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Finnish Academy (Academician)
  • Field of Research: Neurotechnology; consciousness and cortical excitability

Stephen P. Boyd

Roi Reichart portrait

  • Name: Stephen P. Boyd
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2017)
  • Field of Research: Convex optimization and control engineering

Ron Chrisley

Roi Reichart portrait

  • Name: Ron Chrisley
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Fulbright Scholar
  • Field of Research: Machine Consciousness and Theories of Representation

Maiken Nedergaard

Roi Reichart portrait

  • Name: Maiken Nedergaard
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, Member Academia Europaea, etc
  • Field of Research: Glymphatic system; sleep- and consciousness-driven clearance

Włodzisław Duch

Roi Reichart portrait

  • Name: Włodzisław Duch
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, President of ENNS, etc
  • Field of Research: Cognitive architectures and consciousness, Artificial life

Minoru Asada

Minoru Asada

  • Name: Minoru Asada
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, IEEE Fellow, etc
  • Field of Research: Cognitive Developmental Robotics

Nicola S. Clayton

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

Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos

  • Name: Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
  • Honors: WAAC Academician, etc
  • Field of Research: Motor Coding and Conscious Communication

Nilli Lavie

Nilli Lavie

  • Name: Nilli Lavie
  • Honors: WAAC Academician,FBA, etc
  • Field of Research: Load Theory; the relationship between attention and consciousness.