• Dr. B. Alan Wallace is an expert on Tibetan Buddhism

• Dialogues and research between Buddhists and scientists

• Is founder of the of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

• Wallace began his studies of the Tibetan language and Buddhism in 1970 at the University of Göttingen in Germany, continuing his studies in Dharamsala, India

• he was ordained as a Buddhist monk by the Dalai Lama in 1975.

• Was teaching at the Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland from 1975 to 1979

• He was a participant and interpreter at the first Mind and Life Institute in 1987 and continued in this capacity through 2009.

• In 1987, Wallace obtained a B.A. in physics, philosophy of science and Sanskrit from Amherst College

• He received 1995 a Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University

• His doctoral dissertation was on The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.

• He taught for four years in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

• Wallace founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies in 2003, designed to integrate scientific and contemplative exploration of consciousness