Sara Lazar Assistant Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School Sara W. Lazar, Ph.D., is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals.… read more »
Jean-Luc Le Dû Sommelier Jean-Luc Le Dû hails from Gourin, a small village in Central Brittany (France). Having worked in the restaurant industry as a headwaiter in some of New York top restaurants since the late nineteen eighties (Bouley, Carlyle, Marie-Michelle), he was privileged to taste many great classic wines that shaped his palate.… read more »
Joseph LeDoux University Professor & Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Center for Neural Science and the Department of Psychology, New York University Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU in the Center for Neural Science. He also directs the Emotional Brain at NYU and is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical School.… read more »
Francis Lee Mortimer D. Sackler Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College View Papers / Presentations » Francis Lee is the Mortimer D. Sackler Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, and attending psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Michigan, and psychiatry training at Payne Whitney Clinic and completed postdoctoral training, at New York University and the University of California, San Francisco.… read more »
Andy Lee Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough Andy Lee is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, where he leads the Lee MTL Lab. Using a variety of methodological approaches including functional brain imaging and the study of individuals with memory disorders, his research group investigates how the brain supports memory processing, and how memory interacts with visual perception and motivational decision making.… read more »
Alan Leslie Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University Alan Leslie is a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, where he directs the Cognitive Development Laboratory. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Leslie investigates the developmental neurocognitive mechanisms and domain-specialized learning involved in abstract ideation emerging early in life such as cause and effect, enduring object, one, two, three, social agent, believing, pretending, desiring, purpose, and moral transgression.… read more »
Anne-Marie Levine Poet and Visual Artist Anne-Marie Levine lives in New York City. A poet and visual artist who began writing while touring as a concert pianist, she’s the author of three books of poetry: Euphorbia, Bus Ride to a Blue Movie, and Oral History; and a forthcoming artists book called Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter.… read more »
David Levine Professor of the Practice of Performance, Theater, and Media, Harvard University David Levine’s work encompasses theater, performance, video and photography. His performance and exhibition work have been presented by the Brooklyn Museum, Creative Time, MoMA, REDCAT, The MCA Chicago, MACBA, Mass MoCA, PS122, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Theater, BOMB, the New Yorker and the New York Times.… read more »
Suzanne Jill Levine Director of Translation Studies, the University of California, Santa Barbara Suzanne Jill Levine’s translation Mundo Cruel: Stories (by Luis Negron) won the 2014 Lambda Prize for Fiction. Editor of the Penguin paperback classics of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and essays, and translator of canonical Latin American writers such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy and Adolfo Bioy Casares, she has received many honors (NEH, NEA, Guggenheim Fellowships, Rockefeller Fellowship at Villa Serbelloni, PEN American & USA awards) and most recently received the PEN award in 2012 for Jose Donoso’ s The Lizard’s Tale.… read more »
Emma Levine Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Emma Edelman Levine is an assistant professor of Behavioral Science and the Charles Merrill Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She was recently recognized as a Rising Star of the Association of Psychological Science (2019). Emma studies the psychology of altruism, trust, and ethical dilemmas.… read more »
Jerrold Levinson Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Maryland View Papers / Presentations » Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics, 2001-2003. He is the author of five collections of essays, Music, Art, and Metaphysics (Cornell UP 1990, 2nd ed.… read more »
Mark Levinson Director of Particle Fever Before embarking on his film career, Mark earned a doctoral degree in theoretical particle physics from the University of California at Berkeley. In the film world, he became a specialist in ADR, working with actors and directors in post-production to write and record additional dialogue.… read more »
Ellen Levy Ellen K. Levy, a New York-based artist and writer is Past President of the College Art Association (2004-2006) and received her PhD from the University of Plymouth (UK) (2012) on the art and neuroscience of attention. With Patricia Olynyk she co-directs the NY-based LASER (Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous).… read more »
Michael Lewis University Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University Michael Lewis is a University Distinguished Professor of pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson School. His research has focused on normal and deviant emotional and intellectual development. Through his research, Dr.… read more »
Penelope Lewis Senior Lecturer of Neuroscience, University of Manchester Penelope A. Lewis is a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester, where she runs the Neuroscience and Psychology of Sleep (NaPS) lab. Her research specifically investigates the role of sleep in strengthening and altering memories – and ways we can use this to our advantage. … read more »
Michael Lewis Michael Lewis is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also Professor of Psychology, Education, Biomedical Engineering, and Social Work at Rutgers University.… read more »
Rhodri Lewis Professor, English & Comparative Literature, Princeton University Rhodri Lewis was for many years Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and is now Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer (with Rank of Professor) at Princeton University. He has interests in literary, cultural, and intellectual history from about 1500 to the present day, but has tended to concentrate on the first three centuries of this period in his writing.… read more »
Yiyun Li Author Professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University Yiyun Li is the author of six books, including two story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, three novels, The Vagrants, Kinder Than Solitude, Where Reasons End, and an essay collection, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life.… read more »
Fei Li Assistant Professor of Biology, New York University Fei Li is an Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. He then conducted his postdoctoral research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and University of California at Berkeley.… read more »
David Lichtenstein Co-Founder, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY David Lichtenstein is a co-founder, faculty member, and supervisor at Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association in New York. He is the Editor of DIVISION/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and at Adelphi University Derner Institute.… read more »
E. James Lieberman Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine E. James Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine, practiced psychotherapy in Washington D.C. for 40 years after serving as Chief, Center for Child and Family Mental Health, NIMH in the 1960s. He has written extensively on Otto Rank, most recently editing The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis(2012).… read more »
Ben Lillie Ben Lillie is a high-energy particle physicist who left the ivory tower for the wilds of New York’s theater district. He has a B.A. in physics from Reed College, a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and a Certificate in improv comedy from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.… read more »
Kristen Lindquist Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill View Papers / Presentations » Kristen Lindquist is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has appointments in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Biomedical Research Imaging Center in the School of Medicine. She directs the Carolina Affective Science Lab, which uses tools from behavioral science, physiology, and neuroscience to examine how our social worlds, bodies, and brains conspire to create emotions.… read more »
Charles Liu Professor of Astrophysics, City University of New York’s College of Staten Island Charles Liu is a professor of astrophysics at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, and an associate with the Hayden Planetarium and Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His research focuses on colliding galaxies, quasars, and the star formation history of the Universe.… read more »
Rodolfo Llinás Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience Chairman Emmeritus, Department of Physiology & Neuroscience NYU School of Medicine … read more »
Peter Loewenberg Professor Emeritus of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History and Political Psychology, UCLA Peter Loewenberg is a Professor Emeritus of Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History and Political Psychology at UCLA. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Dean of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He is former Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association [IPA] China Committee and currently teaches Psychoanalysis in Shanghai, Wuhan, and Beijing.… read more »
Victoria Loustalot Author, editor, & communications consultant Victoria Loustalot is an author and editor with twenty years of journalism, publishing, and digital media experience. She has been a founding member and senior manager of groundbreaking teams at Twitter, Condé Nast, and NBC. In addition, Victoria has taught seminars and undergraduate writing classes at Columbia University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Montana.… read more »
Ludovica Lumer Faculty, Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca Ludovica Lumer, a philosopher and neurobiologist, was born in Milan in 1971 and, since 1997, has been working with Semir Zeki at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology (University College London), where she started researching in the field of neuroesthetics, studying the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation.… read more »
Susan Lutgendorf Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Urology, member of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. Dr. Lutgendorf is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Urology and member of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa. Her current work, funded by the National Cancer Institute, examines how factors such as stress, depression, and social support are linked to biological processes involved in angiogenesis, inflammation, and recurrence inovarian cancer patients.… read more »
Joseph Luzzi Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College Author Joseph Luzzi (PhD Yale) is Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College and the author of Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (Yale University Press, 2008), which received the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), a finalist for the international prize “The Bridge Book” Award; My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into Italian, German, and Korean.… read more »