Boris is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of Social
Neuroscience of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive
and Brain Science in Leipzig, under the supervision of Prof. Dr.
Tania Singer. He has worked on the conceptual bases and the
intervention protocol of the ReSource Project, a large scale study
on the effects of contemplative practice. He received his Diploma
in Psychology from Humboldt-University in Berlin and has been
working at the Department of Cognitive Psychology under the
supervision of Prof. Dr. Elke van der Meer from 2007 to 2009. In
2009, he worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Dr. Piotr
Winkielman at the University of California in San Diego. Boris
prior research has focused on cognitive efficiency, emotions, and
consciousness.
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