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STARS Research Grant Recipients
Recipients of the $100,000 STARS Research Grants
Subjective Experience
as a Window on Foundational Physics


yakir
Yakir Aharonov
Distinguished Professor of Theoretical Physics, Center for Quantum Studies, George Mason University (Co-Principal Investigator)

jeff
Jeffrey Tollaksen
Assistant Professor, Founder and Director, Center for Quantum Studies, George Mason University (Co-Principal Investigator)

david
David Albert
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University

paul
Paul Davies
College Professor and Director of Beyond: Center
for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona
State University

brian
Brian Greene
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics, Columbia University

maulik
Maulik Parikh
Assistant Professor, Inter-University Center for Astronomy
and Astrophysics

On the Reality of
Top-Down Causation


gennaro
Gennaro Auletta
Director of the Specialization “Science and Philosophy,” Pontifical Gregorian University (Co-Principal Investigator)

luc
Luc Jaeger
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
(Co-Principal Investigator)

Not pictured:
Paolo D’Ambrosio, Doctoral Student, Pontifical Gregorian University

george
George Ellis
Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town

william
William Stoeger
Staff Scientist, Vatican Observatory; Associate Professor, University of Arizona


Observation of the Gravitational-Wave Analog of the CMB and its Implications for the Origin of the Observable Universe

raymond
Raymond Chiao
Professor of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of California, Merced (Co-Principal Investigator)

kirk
Kirk Wegter-McNelly
Assistant Professor of Theology, Boston University School of Theology (Co-Principal Investigator)

The Rationality of Ultimate Value: Emotion, Awareness, & Causality in Virtue Ethics & Decision Neuroscience

warren
Warren Brown
Professor of Psychology, Graduate School of Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary (Co-Principal Investigator)

greg
Gregory Peterson
Associate Professor,
South Dakota State University (Co-Principal Investigator)

kevin
Kevin Reimer
Professor of Psychology, Azusa Pacific University

michael
Michael Spezio
Assistant Professor, Scripps College; Visiting Scientist, California Institute of Technology

james
James Van Slyke
Adjunct Professor, Azusa Pacific University


Information and the
Origin of Life


andrew
Andrew Robinson
Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter (Co-Principal Investigator)

christopher
Christopher Southgate
Research Fellow, University of Exeter (Co-Principal Investigator)