"Emiliana Simon-Thomas Ph.D. is the Associate Director
and a Senior Scientist at CCARE, the Center for Compassion and Altruism
Research and Education at Stanford. She earned her doctorate and did post
doctoral research at UC Berkeley examining the behaviors, affective
properties, cognitive appraisals, and autonomic and neural signals associated
with pro-social states like love of humanity and compassion. At CCARE,
Emiliana is continuing to investigate the multifaceted properties of
compassion, running studies that investigate the effects of compassion
cultivation on health, well-being and psychosocial functions and organizing
events around highlighting compassion science and promoting greater exchange
and collaboration"
