1 hour: Q&A with Dr. Marco Colnaghi & Geshe Tenzin Namdak
About the Live Q&A session
Join us for this first Live Q&A session on the intersection of Buddhism & Quantum Physics. This event is part of our first Online Course on Buddhism & Quantum Physics. It doesn’t matter if you are already an Online Learning student in our e-course or if you are just interested in this topic and would like to ask some questions and interact with peers: please join us! We will have approximately one hour for questions and answers on any topic related to Buddhism & Quantum Physics. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Dr. Marco Colnaghi is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator. His research aim is to develop theoretical models to better understand the evolution of life and mind. After his initial training as a physicist, he earned a PhD in Mathematical Biology and Complexity Science at University College London. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he studies the evolution of human cooperation alongside Prof. Daniel Balliet (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Prof. Fernando Dos Santos (Universiteit van Amsterdam).
Before joining the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nick Lane and Andrew Pomiankowski’s lab at the Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (University College London). There, he investigated key milestones in the evolution of life, such as the origin of the genetic code, the evolution of eukaryotic life, and the origin of sexual reproduction.
Besides his academic research, Marco has been a meditation practitioner since his early twenties. He strongly believes that contemplative wisdom can have a transformative impact on our individual and collective consciousness, as well as on our scientific understanding of life and mind.
Geshe Tenzin Namdak
Geshe Tenzin Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher having graduated in hydrology from Van Hall Larenstein University, The Netherlands. He started studying Buddhism at Maitreya Institute in 1993 and took ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama before engaging in his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and psychology at Sera Jey Monastic University, South India, in 1997.
He completed the entire twenty-year Geshe program at Sera Jey in 2017 and the traditional one year Vajrayana study program at Gyume Tantric College in January 2019, the first Westerner to do so. Because of his deep interest and background in science and as a member of Sera Jey’s Education Department he spoke on and organized various dialogues and conferences on contemporary science and ancient contemplative wisdom of the mind and its philosophy.
Currently, he is the resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, and teaches worldwide.