Recent scientific talks and presentations

[with related publications in brackets]

2009

Sustaining Happiness: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Meditation, 32nd Mystics and Scientists Conference, Winchester (05 April 2009) [invited keynote]

The Mind, the Brain, and the Buddha: Recent Developments in Meditation Research and Consciousness Studies Helsinki: Vanha ylioppilastalo Musiikkisali. Part of the 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations of Diamond Way Buddhism in Finland (26 April 2008) [download the poster of the event]
Meditation practice, mindfulness skills and components of well-being 4th European Conference on Positive Psychology, Opatija, Croatia. (03 July 2008)
Electroencephalography for Psychology: From set-up to data-analysis Association of Technical Staff in Psychology Conference 2008. (10 July 2008)
The happy brain: The psychology and neuroscience of meditation, BA Festival of Science, Liverpool (11 Sept 2008)
Der Geist, der Buddha und das Gehirn: Was bewirkt Meditation in unserem Geist? Symposium Perception and Reality in Buddhism and Science, Vienna (14/15 Nov) [in German].

Science meets Buddhism. Newtown Community Hall, Sidney, Australia. (03 February 2007).
Attending and ignoring: Investigating selective visual attention with steady-state visual evoked potentials. School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester. (03 May 2007).
Psychologie und Buddhismus. Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany. (17 May 2007).
Buddhism and Science – Buddhism into the 21st Century. Summer School of the University of Malaga and ITAS, Velez-Malaga, Spain. (23 – 27 July 2007).
Buddhism Meets Science: The Effects of Meditation. Scientific Lecture Series "From Buddhism to Science and Back" organised by the Tibet-Europe Foundation of Hungary. Pecs, Budapest, Miscolc. (05 - 07 October 2007)

The Psychology of Buddhism. Exeter Central Library. (31 March 2006)
Effects of Meditation on the Brain. University of Latvia, Biological Faculty. Riga, Latvia. (18 May 2006).
Buddhism and Subjective Well-Being. University of Latvia, Department of Psychology. Riga, Latvia. (19 May 2006).
Buddhism and the brain. Public talk, Budapest. (29 May 2006).
Steady-state evoked potentials - current issues and applications [symposium organiser] 6th Congress of the Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies, Budapest, Hungary. ( 31 May – 03 June 2006)
Attending and Ignoring: Investigating selective visual attention with steady-state visual evoked potentials. 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience, Coventry. (04 - 06 September 2006)
Finding the causes for happiness: Psychological and Buddhist perspectives. Conference: Od buddyzmu do nauki i z powrotem. Konferencja naukowa. Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. (19 October 2006)

Brain Science and Buddhism. Lecture Series: Mysticism, Meditation and Science, Manchester Metropolitan University and Transpersonal Psychology Section of the BPS, Manchester. (25 January 2005).
Selfhood and Personality - A Buddhist Perspective. The British Psychological Society, Quinquennial Conference: Psychology for the 21st Century, University of Manchester. (30 March – 02 April 2005)