As 2025 draws to a close, we’re feeling grateful for our amazing professors! This is Elli Weisbaum, co-Director of our EASE Lab and BPMH instructor.
Elli works internationally facilitating mindfulness workshops and retreats in education, healthcare and business. At the University of Toronto, she is Assistant Professor (teaching stream) in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Program, with a joint appointment to the Department of Psychiatry, in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, with a cross-appointment to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in their Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.
At the heart of her teaching and research is an interest in cultivating learning and occupational environments where all members thrive. Her work draws on research from in neuroscience, education, healthcare and the workplace to explore how the scientific evidence base for mindfulness is integrated and operationalized across society.
This is Alex Djedovic, who teaches our course on Buddhism and Psychology. He’s also an active member of our EASE Lab, and he leads extra-curricular reading groups that bring students and faculty together to talk about consciousness, AI, and other fun topics!
Professor Djedovic is a philosopher working at the intersection of biology, cognitive science, and social issues. Focused on how the sciences of life and the sciences of mind inform (and sometimes mislead) each other, he writes about embodied cognition and theories of living organisms. An interdisciplinary scholar, he is also interested in how cognitive science influences society, non-Western approaches to cognition and their intersection with psychological and social health, the role of theory in making a better world, and the intersection of politics, history, and science.
This is Mark Miller, a philosopher who is also the host of the popular Contemplative Science Podcast and a member of our EASE Lab.
Mark Miller is a philosopher of cognition who applies tools of conceptual analysis and theoretical model building to answer fundamental questions about human cognition – about the way that human beings think. His research investigates the implications of a leading new perspective on cognition, which conceptualizes the mind as an engine of knowledge-driven predictions. He explores how developments in cognitive neuroscience may help us gain a clearer understanding of the impact that our increasingly technologically-mediated world has on our happiness and well-being. He is developing new perspectives on contemporary discussions in domains such as human-computer interaction and socio-technical systems, with a specific emphasis on human flourishing.