Leadership
MindCORE Executive Committee
Joseph Kable, Director
Heather Calvert, Executive Director
Nicole Rust, Associate Director of Research
Florian Schwarz, Associate Director of Education
Meredith Tamminga, Associate Director of Outreach
Sharon Thompson-Schill, Founding Director
Staff
Jessica Marcus, Program Manager
Michelle Johnson, Outreach Program Manager
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Faculty & Associates
MindCORE seeks to bring together faculty and researchers with diverse approaches to the study of the mind, from disciplines across the Arts & Sciences, Medicine, Business, Engineering, and others in order to stimulate and support interdisciplinary investigation in an effort to understand human intelligence and behavior. Central to this goal are the scholarly efforts of our affiliated faculty, staff, and trainees with formal affiliates defined in two appointment tracks.
For University of Pennsylvania (and/or CHOP) faculty or senior staff with an emerging or established record of research on topics connected to mind and brain, MindCORE faculty are appointed for two year terms. To become a MindCORE Faculty or Associate affiliate, please click here.
Postdocs & grad students
For Postdoctoral scholars and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania with emerging or established records of research in the field of mind and brain and are mentored by MindCORE Faculty. To become a MindCORE Postdoc or Grad Student affiliate, please apply here.
The benefits available to all of our affiliates include: Eligibility to apply to the MindCORE Activity Fund and for research support; research dissemination; networking and professional development events; conference and seminars.
MindCORE Faculty Advisory Board
Faculty Advisory Board FY21
Vijay Balasubramanian, Physics (FY17-20, FY21-23)
Liz Brannon, Psychology (FY20-22)
John Detre, PSOM (FY17-20, FY21-23)
Russell Epstein, Psychology (FY20-22)
Emily Falk, Annenberg (FY17-20)
Martha Farah, Psychology (FY17-20, FY21-23)
Maria Geffen, Philosophy (FY20-22)
Joshua Gold, PSOM (FY17-19) (FY20-22)
Jay Gottfried, Psychology and PSOM (FY20-22)
Gary Hatfield, Philosophy (FY21-24)
Konrad Kording, SEAS and PSOM (FY17-19) (FY20-22)
Mark Liberman, Linguistics (FY21-24)
Barbara Mellers, Psychology and Wharton (FY17-19) (FY20-22)
Anna Pappafragou, Linguistics (FY21-24)
Michael Platt, Psychology, PSOM and Wharton (FY17-19) (FY20-22)
Marc Schmidt, Biology (FY17-19) (FY20-22)
Dan Swingley, Psychology (FY20-22)
Lyle Ungar, SEAS (FY17-20, FY21-23)
Michael Weisberg, Philosophy (FY21-24)
Faculty Advisory Board ex-officio
David Brainard, Psychology – SAS Associate Dean for the for the Natural Sciences
Coren Apicella, Psychology – Co-Director, SBSI
Geoff Goodwin, Psychology – Co-Director, SBSI
John Trueswell, Psychology – Co-Director, ILST
Charles Yang, Linguistics – Co-Director, ILST
Erol Akcay, Biology – Co-Director, SCEW
Gareth Roberts, Linguistics – Co-Director, SCEW
Outreach Committee
Meredith Tamminga, Linguistics, Committee Chair
Liz Brannon, Psychology
Martha Farah, Psychology
Michael Weisberg, Philosophy
Research Committee
Nicole Rust, Psychology, Committee Chair
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Biology
Vijay Balasubrimanian, Physics
Anna Jenkins, Psychology
Education Committee
Florian Schwarz, Linguistics, Committee Chair
Johannes Burge, Psychology
Victor Gomes, Psychology Graduate Student
Katie Schuler, Linguistics
Colin Twomey, MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow
Seminar Committee
John McCoy, Marketing, Committee Chair
Anna Jenkins, Psychology
Lisa Miracchi, Philosophy
Anna Papafragou, Linguistics
Josh Plotkin, Biology