Some facts about Antoine Lutz

Last Updated on May 10, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

• Antoine Lutz was the first author of the PNAS paper from 2004:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

• We have discussed this paper here:

The future of the meditation research project 20 years after the PNAS paper «Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice»?

• Antoine Lutz has a site at the Center of Healthy Minds which can be found here:

https://centerhealthyminds.org/about/people/antoine-lutz

• He is Staff Research Scientist at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center.
• He is Staff Scientist (Chargé de recherche) at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CNRL), INSERM, France.
• He received his PhD in cognitive science in Paris, France with Francisco Varela
• Francisco Varela (1946 – 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, cybernetician, and neuroscientist who, together with his mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology,
• Francisco Varela was co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.
• Antoine Lutz did postdoctoral research with Richard Davidson at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.
• He was working as a scientist in the United States for ten years.
• He joined the CNRL in January 2013.
• CNRL:
• Antoine Lutz is a research director at INSERM in the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CNRL).

Mindfulness meditation from the lenses of phenomenology and neurosciences

• His main research interest is the neuroscience of mindfulness and compassion meditations and their effects on consciousness, attention and emotion regulation, and pain perception.
• His recent research in Madison includes an NIH-NCCAM-funded project examining the cognitive and neural mechanisms of action of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intervention and its effects on attention, pain perception, and fear conditioning.
• Dr. Lutz received an ERC Consolidator Grant in December 2013 to expand his research program on mindfulness meditation in Lyon, France.
• Antoine Lutz is one of the view scientists who writes papers about meditation on a regular basis:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=biXgcqQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

• Antoine Lutz gives talks at Tergar
• Antoine Lutz gives talks with Mingour Rhinpoche

This is the picture we found from Antoine Lutz where he seems to suffer the most:

https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/8804/overview

And this picture shows him when he looked the happiest.

• The second picture could be found on his google scholar site

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=biXgcqQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate