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Education Faculty includes:

Director Education
Lead Professor Masters Program
Lead Professor Post Graduate Certificate Program


Dan Radecki Ph.D.

Dan Radecki holds a Bachelors in Psychology, Masters in Biopsychology and Ph.D.in Neuroscience and brings a background in teaching neuroscience to this extraordinary program. His experience includes clinical research, instructor of medicine and corporate clinician in trial studies.  Dr Radecki brings his clinical and corporate experience to lead all participants through the program studies in a multi-media, experiential program format.




Lead Professors


Golnaz Tabibnia Ph.D.

Golnaz Tabibnia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the recipient of a number of awards for her research and teaching, including fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health.  Golnaz's research focuses on the interplay of passion and reason in the human brain. She uses neuroimaging, psychophysiological, and behavioral methods to study such topics as emotion regulation, self control, intrapersonal choice, interpersonal decision-making, and well-being. 





Stephen Rhys Thomas Ph.D.

Stephen Rhys Thomas is a management neuroscientist and global high-tech executive now working at the School of Management in Southampton. Originally the author of more than a dozen papers in Neuroscience journals, and drawing on three decades of cross-functional experience of implementing breakthrough technology and business strategies in technical and executive roles, his current research is focused on the implications of verifiable advances in neuroscience for management theory and practice. He is an active contributor to University-wide science-based research programs  and has research collaborations in the UK, Europe and the USA. Recently the students voted him one of the four most inspirational teachers in the School of Management.



Grace Chang Ph.D.

Grace Chang received her B.S. in Psychology/Neuroscience from Duke University and her Ph.D. in Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience from UCLA. Grace’s main research focus is learning and memory. She has conducted numerous learning and memory studies involving rats, young adults, older adults, and Parkinson’s Disease patients. As a researcher at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Teaching (CRESST) at UCLA, she has extended the scope of her learning research to middle and high school students. Grace is collaborating on several projects investigating how students learn, how to improve student learning, and how to assess different aspects of student learning. Over the years, she has also taught numerous cognitive neuroscience classes focused on the biological bases of behavior and research method lab courses focused on guiding students to conduct, analyze, and write up research projects.



Josh Davis Ph.D

Josh Davis received his bachelor’s from Brown University, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His career began in engineering, from which he transitioned to academic teaching and research about the mind and brain. His research deals with adaptive emotional state control and mind-body connections. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, and he has taught at New York University, Columbia University, and Barnard College. He is a member of the Barnard College Department of Psychology.




Elliot Berkman Ph.D

Elliot Berkman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. The central aim of Dr. Berkman’s research is to understand how behavioral, motivational, and neural systems work together to help us pursue our goals. His research combines the distinct strengths of several research methods including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), cross-sectional and longitudinal survey methods, and laboratory experiments. He teaches courses in statistics, neuroimaging, and social psychology. His research and teaching have been recognized with the Joseph A. Gengerelli Distinguished Dissertation Award, the UCLA Social Psychology Dissertation Award, the Arthur J. Woodward Peer Mentoring Award and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. He received doctoral degrees in Social Psychology from UCLA in 2010, and bachelors degrees in Psychology and Mathematics from Stanford in 2002.