An alphabetcal listing of Roundtable participants whose last names start with L.
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 »
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.
Professor of Neural Science, New York University
Joseph LeDoux is a Professor of Neural Science at New York University. His work, which has spanned the topics of emotion, memory, and consciousness, and their interaction in the brain. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.… read more »
Mortimer D. Sackler Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Maryland
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Poet
Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry, Field Light (Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward; 2021 “Must Read”, Mass Book Awards), Marriage Map (short list Rubery Book Awards)and Sometimes Full of Daylight, all from Dos Madres Press, and three chapbooks, mostly recently Knock-knock (2024). … read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Dayu Lin, Professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience and Physiology New York University Grossman School of Medicine, has studied the neural mechanisms underlying the generation of social behaviors, especially aggression and parental behaviors for the last 20 years.… read more »
Associate Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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 »
Presidential Scholar in Neuroscience and Society, Columbia University
Fellow of the Italian Academy, Columbia University
Dr. Paul Linton is a Presidential Scholar in Neuroscience and Society, and a Fellow of the Italian Academy, at Columbia University, specializing in human 3D vision. He is the author of The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and the lead editor of the Royal Society volume New Approaches to 3D Vision (2023).… read more »
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.
Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience
Chairman Emmeritus, Department of Physiology & Neuroscience
NYU School of Medicine
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 »
Director, Department of Music Therapy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Joanne Loewy DA, LCAT, MT-BC is the Director of the Department of Music Therapy, and a Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is a Founding Member of the International Association for Music and Medicine and is an MPI on two NIH funded studies on Pain and Music therapy in the stress measured by metabolic pathways of Black pregnant women.… read more »
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 »
Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Claudia Lugo-Candelas, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the perinatal programming of risk and resilience for neurodevelopmental disorders. She obtained a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and completed her clinical internship at the NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln.… read more »
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 »
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 »
Historian of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Vice-President, National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA)
Amy S.F. Lutz, PhD is a historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Vice-President of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA), and the parent of a profoundly autistic son, Jonah, 26. She has written about profound autism for many journals, including The American Journal of Bioethics, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, Autism Research and Frontiers in Psychiatry, as well as for more mainstream platforms including The Atlantic, Psychology Today, The Washington Post, and Slate. … read more »
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 »