People

Maggie has been an owner and standing Board Member of Innoviss Inc. since 2007. As the Executive Chair, Maggie supports strategic and financial operations and has more than 15 years of business, marketing and IT industry experience, previously holding positions with Johns Hopkins University and ManTech. Maggie has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Richard Huganir is a professor of neuroscience, biological chemistry and pharmacology and molecular science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Huganir’s research focuses on molecular mechanisms that modulate the communication between neurons in the brain.

He serves as the director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Huganir and his team focus their efforts on researching the mechanisms that underlie the regulation of the glutamate receptors, the major excitatory neurotransmitter receptors in the brain. These receptors are neurotransmitter-dependent ion channels that allow ions to pass through the neuronal cell membrane, resulting in the excitation of neuronal activity.

He received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Vassar College and earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology from Cornell University. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the Nobel Laureate, Dr. Paul Greengard, at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Huganir then moved to the Rockefeller University where he was an assistant professor of molecular and cellular neurobiology from 1984-1988. Dr. Huganir joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1988.

Dr. Huganir received the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience and the Santiago Grisolia Award, among others. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Huganir has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Jenny Warren began her design career at Parsons School of Design in New York City where she interned with Clodagh, one of the first designers to successfully bring the art of Feng Shui to the mainstream. After graduating from Parsons, Jenny continued her career at David Howell Design, expanding her experience in both residential and commercial design and further influencing her underlying belief that your space, both work and home, can have a mind-altering impact on your life experience. Since interior design was her second career, she decided to combine her previous experience in marketing and business with her new love of design by opening up VEGA, a unique home furnishings store in Washington, D.C. Excited to bring her new understanding and love of design to her home town, she opened up a 3,500 square foot retail store front in the heart of the Penn Quarter.

Jenny graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s in communications in 1988. She received an associate’s degree in Interior Design from Parson School of Design in 1994.

Marilyn Albert received her Ph.D. in physiological psychology from McGill University in Montreal and completed a fellowship in neuropsychology at Boston University School of Medicine. She served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for over 22 years.

Now a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins and Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dr. Albert focuses on the cognitive and brain changes associated with aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Her work has delineated the cognitive changes associated with aging and early AD, along with potential methods of early identification of AD. She has also identified lifestyle factors that promote maintenance of mental abilities with advancing age.

Dr. Albert’s research currently focuses on the early identification of AD and potential ways of monitoring the progression of disease to permit early intervention.

Dr. Amy Bastian is the chief science officer at Kennedy Krieger Institute, a role in which she identifies and promotes new directions for breakthrough research into the developing brain, spinal cord and musculoskeletal system. She is also director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory that studies the neural control of human movement. Dr. Bastian is a professor of neuroscience and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

After completing her undergraduate degree in physical therapy at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Bastian completed her doctoral degree in movement science at Washington University in 1995 and a post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Washington University under Dr. W.T. Thach.

Dr. Bastian’s research uses computerized movement tracking techniques, non-invasive brain stimulation, novel devices and robotics to control walking and reaching movements in people with and without neurological damage. She has coauthored over 100 scientific papers and numerous book chapters and served as chair of the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Study Section at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is currently the primary investigator on two R01 grants from the NIH, one of which recently received a prestigious Javits award.

Dr. Bastian’s work has been featured in the mass media, including:
The Wall Street Journal: After a Stroke, Therapy Gets Faster
National Public Radio (NPR): Does the Fight for a Cursive Comeback Miss the Point?
USA Today: Odd Treadmill May Help Stroke Survivors

Julio Bermudez has served as the director of the Sacred Space and Cultural Studies graduate program at the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning since 2010. He has been teaching architectural design, theory and representation for nearly 30 years. Dr. Bermudez’s interests are focused in the relationship between architecture, culture and spirituality through the lens of phenomenology and neuroscience. He has widely lectured, led symposia and published in this area, including “Transcending Architecture: Contemporary Views on Sacred Space” (CUA Press, 2015) and “Architecture, Culture and Spirituality” (Routledge, 2015). His current research uses neuroscience to study contemplative built environments. Dr. Bermudez is the president of the Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Forum, an international organization that he co-founded in 2007.

Stephen Campbell is the Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Campbell is a specialist in Italian art of the 15th and 16th centuries. His work has focused on the artistic culture of North Italian cities, court artists such as Ferrarese painter Cosmè Tura, the representation of Judaism in Christian art, the rise of mythological painting and the history of collecting. He has also published articles on aspects of Giorgione, the Carracci, Agnolo Bronzino, Michelangelo and Rosso Fiorentino. His most recent book is “Art in Italy 1400-1600,” co-authored with Michael Cole (Fall 2011).

Dr. Campbell was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1985), the University of North Carolina (M.A. 1987) and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1993). Before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 2002, he taught at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1993, he published a book for a general audience on the Great Irish Famine of 1847-1851, with a preface by President of Ireland Mary Robinson. In 2002 he was guest curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, for the exhibition Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara.

Dr. Campbell has held post-doctoral fellowships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington.

Anjan Chatterjee is the Frank A. and Gwladys H. Elliott Professor and chair of neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital. He is a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his neurology residency at the University of Chicago. Dr. Chatterjee’s clinical practice focuses on patients with cognitive disorders, and his research addresses questions about spatial cognition and language, attention, neuroethics and neuroaesthetics.

He wrote “The Aesthetic Brain: How we Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art” and co-edited “Neuroethics in Practice: Mind, Medicine, and Society” and “The Roots of Cognitive Neuroscience: Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology.” He has served on the editorial boards of many journals, including American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience; Behavioural Neurology; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology. He was awarded the Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology and the Arnheim Prize for contribution to Psychology and the Arts by the American Psychological Association. He is a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Neuroethics Society, the past President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and the past President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society. He serves on the Boards of Haverford College, the Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Dr. Ed Connor is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has served as director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute since 2007. His research examines object synthesis in the higher-level visual cortex.
Dr. Connor earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins in 1989. After postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology and Washington University, he joined the Johns Hopkins Neuroscience Department in 1996.

His work has shown how object structure is represented by populations of neurons in higher-level visual regions of the brain. In new studies funded by the Brain Science Institute, his laboratory has begun to investigate the neural basis of shape aesthetics.

Dr. Dölen’s lab focuses on studying the molecular, circuit, developmental, and evolutionary mechanisms of social behaviors using a number of evolving and established techniques including electrophysiology, optogenetics, viral-mediated gene transfer, RNA and DNA sequencing, anatomy, and behavior. In addition, her work seeks to harness mechanistic insights for treating neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia, which are characterized by impairments in social behaviors, as well as disorders like addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder that respond to social influence or are the result of social injury. Dr. Dölen joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2014, and has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Searle Scholars Award and the Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Ph.D. (Columbia University) is a former Harvard professor, and writes about architecture, landscape, and cities and their effect on human health and wellbeing. Her book, Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives (HarperCollins; also published in Chinese, Russian, and Korean) won a Nautilus Book Award in 2017 for its contribution to social and environmental justice, and Goldhagen was an opening-night Spotlight speaker at the AIA National Convention that same year.

A frequent keynote speaker, Goldhagen has won numerous awards and grants (including three from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts) for her criticism and writing on modern and contemporary architecture and landscapes, with an emphasis on their psychological and cognitive effects on people. She has published opinion pieces in The New York Times, served as Contributing Editor for Art in America and Architectural Record, and was The New Republic’s architecture critic for nearly a decade.

Goldhagen also has had a distinguished academic career with scholarly publications that include Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism (Yale University) and Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture (co-edited with Réjean Legault, MIT Press) as well as numerous essays and reviews in premier architecture- and art-historical journals. Currently she writes essays, is finishing a memoir, works closely with the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), and consults with major companies on strategies for promoting and implementing human-centered design.

Dr. James C. Harris is a professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Harris received his medical degree in 1966 from George Washington University. He trained in pediatrics at the University of Southern California Children’s Hospital and the University of Rochester before joining Johns Hopkins for his psychiatry residency and fellowship in child psychiatry from 1972-1974. The author of the textbook “Development Neuropsychiatry,” Harris’ research focuses on behavioral phenotypes in neurogenetic disorders and psychopharmacology in neurodevelopmental disorders. Today he directs the developmental neuropsychiatry clinic at Johns Hopkins.

Sarah Hoover is the co-director of the new Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine. In this role, she leads a variety of interconnected efforts to meet the center’s mission: harnessing the healing power of music and ensuring the health of musicians. Hoover works with colleagues across the university to conduct research, develop therapies, bring music into clinical settings and bring multi-disciplinary clinical care to Peabody students and other musicians. Since her 2015 appointment, Hoover has re-invigorated Peabody’s historic engagement with a diverse array of agencies and organizations across Johns Hopkins and throughout Baltimore.
Hoover has led the development of unique community engagement opportunities which bring music to new audiences and help students hone important audience development skills. She has also taken a leadership role in the development of Peabody’s new Breakthrough Curriculum, which incorporates community engagement experiences into the core training of the 21st-century citizen artist.
Prior to her appointment at Peabody, Hoover was an assistant professor of music at Hofstra University. She has had a career as a performer, teacher and music journalist and co-founded the Oyster Bay Music festival in New York. She is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has served as the Eastern region president.

Hoover is a graduate of Yale University and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from Peabody

Dr. Steven Holochwost is advisor on research and program evaluation at the Science of Learning Institute, where he counsels senior staff on issues of evaluation design, measurement development and data analysis. He is also senior research scientist and associate principal at WolfBrown, where he directs evaluations of programs designed to improve the lives of under-served children and youth.

His applied work in program evaluation focuses on the use of mixed quantitative and qualitative methods in program evaluation and the application of advanced analytics to longitudinal data. His research in early child development examines the effects of environment, and particularly poverty and parenting, on voluntary forms of self-regulation (e.g., executive functions) and the involuntary activity of neurophysiological systems that support self-regulatory abilities. The common thread running through both these lines of work is the need to understand how risk impacts child development and how programs that expand opportunities for children can mitigate those effects.

Before joining WolfBrown, Dr. Holochwost was Associate Director of Research at the Early Learning Center and, prior to that, Senior Assistant Child Advocate with the Office of the Child Advocate for the State of New Jersey. He earned his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a National Science Foundation Fellow and a master’s degree in public affairs from the Fels Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Natasha Hussain is the scientific director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute. In this leadership role, Hussain facilitates interactions among neuroscientists, engineers and data scientists with the goal of advancing neuroscience discovery by fostering transdisciplinary research.

Prior to joining the Kavli NDI, Natasha was a research associate in the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University where she studied molecular components of synaptic plasticity. Synaptic plasticity of neurons denotes the ability to dynamically modulate the pre-existing connections between neurons. It is widely held that long-term plasticity of the brain is mediated in major part by morphological reorganization of neuronal circuits and specifically by the selective strengthening and weakening of synapses. This plasticity of neurons plays a fundamental role in learning, memory and in the manifestation of neurological diseases and disorders. Accumulating evidence suggests early cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease, as well as disorders associated with intellectual disability, may be caused by disrupted excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by AMPA (a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid) type glutamate receptors. Hussain conducted foundational research on how specific protein complexes affect AMPA receptor function to regulate neuronal plasticity.

Dr. Krakauer is the John C. Malone Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and director of the Brain, Learning, Animation and Movement Lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of research interest are: experimental and computational studies of motor control and motor learning in humans; tracking long-term motor skill learning and its relation to higher cognitive processes such as decision-making; prediction of motor recovery after stroke; mechanisms of spontaneous motor recovery after stroke in humans and in mouse models; and new neuro-rehabilitation approaches for patients in the first 3 months after stroke.
Dr. Krakauer is co-founder of the video gaming company Max and Haley and the creative engineering project KATA at Johns Hopkins. KATA and Max and Haley are both predicated on the idea that animal movement is highly pleasurable and that pleasure is heightened when a human can simulate and control such movements on their own. With Dr. Krakauer, KATA has developed a therapeutic game that uses an FDA-approved 3D exoskeletal robot to simulate a dolphin’s movement. The game is being used in an ongoing multi-site rehabilitation trial for early stroke recovery. Dr. Krakauer ‘s recent book is “Broken Movement: The Neurobiology of Motor Recovery after Stroke” (MIT Press, 2017).

Barbara Landau has been the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Cognitive Science since 2001 and the Director of the Science of Learning Institute since 2013. Landau is interested in human knowledge of language and space, and the relationships between these two foundational systems of knowledge. Landau’s research draws on a variety of approaches, including traditional experimental and linguistic methods adapted for young children. Although much of her work concerns the mechanisms of normal development, she is also interested in unusual cases of development, which can shed light on normal development and cognition.

Landau is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cognitive Science Society, and several other organizations. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009, and is currently the Retiring Chair of the Psychology Section of the AAAS.

Rong Li is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering. She is also the director of the Center for Cell Dynamics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. She is a leader in understanding cellular asymmetry, division and evolution, and specifically, in how eukaryotic cells establish their distinct morphology and organization in order to carry out their specialized functions.

Dr. David J. Linden is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research examines the cellular substrates of memory storage, the molecular basis of addiction, and recovery of function following brain injury among other topics.

Dr. Linden has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and has written two neuroscience books for general audiences. In 2010, Dr. Linden was recognized as a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Frederick Marks has been a licensed architect for more than 25 years with a planning and design specialty in healthcare and laboratory science facilities. He holds degrees in architecture and business administration with a major in real estate and urban land economics. Frederick currently serves as a board advisor to The American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C., as well as a member of its research committee and knowledge communities committee. He is an advisor to the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation-Delos Well Living Laboratory in Rochester, Minn., and the building systems organization ASHRAE. He is a founding Board member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architects, its former Chief Operating Officer and now president-elect. At Salk Institute, Frederick is working with a principal investigator to acquire data about the relationship between the human circadian system and exposure to natural and electric indoor lighting.

Dr. Justin McArthur is nationally and internationally recognized for his work in studying the natural history, development and treatment of HIV infection, multiple sclerosis and other neurological infections and immune-mediated neurological disorders. Dr. McArthur has also developed a technique to use cutaneous nerves to study sensory neuropathies, including those associated with chemotherapy, HIV and diabetes.

Dr. McArthur is the director the of the Johns Hopkins/National Institute of Mental Health Research Center for Novel Therapeutics of HIV-associated Cognitive Disorders. The Center is comprised of an experienced interdisciplinary research team who have pooled their talents to study the nature of HIV-associated cognitive disorders. Their aim is to translate discoveries of the pathophysiological mechanisms into novel therapeutics for HIV-associated dementia (HIV-D).

Dr. McArthur received his medical degree from Guys Hospital Medical School in London, UK. He then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and stayed with Johns Hopkins to complete a residency in neurology and achieve his master’s in public health. He is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology and holds the John W. Griffin Professorship in Neurology established in 2015 by Jeffrey and Harriet Legum. In April 2017 Dr. McArthur was elected to the Association of American Physicians.

Mary Ann Mears is a sculptor who has been commissioned to create site-specific art for public sites across a number of states including Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Within her home state of Maryland, her commissioned works are located in Bethesda, Rockville, Cheverly, Belair, Glen Burnie, Silver Spring, Columbia, and at several locations in Baltimore. She is also a volunteer arts advocate. Her achievements include being a founder of Maryland Art Place and helping to craft and successfully lobby for Maryland’s Public Art Bill.  She is a trustee of Maryland Citizens for the Arts. Mary Ann is the founder of Arts Education in Maryland Schools (AEMS) Alliance. She serves on the Maryland State Department of Education’s Fine Arts Education Advisory Panel and recently Co-chaired the Governor’s P-20 Leadership Council’s Task Force on Arts Education in Maryland schools. She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in the Fine Arts from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). In 2009, she received the Distinguished Service to the Arts Award from the National Governors Association.

Michael Miller is the Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Miller received his master’s and doctorate degrees in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins. He joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where he rose to be a chaired professor while developing an international reputation in computational science and imaging.

Miller is the director of the Center for Imaging Science in the Whiting School of Engineering. The center is focused on establishing worldwide analytical models for image and pattern understanding. Most prominently, this has been manifested through the creation of a cloud-based library of brain MRIs.

The author of more than 300 manuscripts and two textbooks, Miller is an international leader in medical imaging and brain mapping, having pioneered the field of computational anatomy as a modern theory of human anatomical shape and form. He is a Gilman Scholar within Johns Hopkins University and co-directs the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute.

Itai is a practicing architect and researcher focusing on designing with the human experience in mind.

He is Director of Hume, a science informed architecture and urban design practice backed by research at its Human Metrics Lab.

In 2015, Itai founded the Conscious Cities movement; a new field of research and practice for building people-centric environments that are aware and responsive using data analysis, AI, tech, and cognitive science in design. A fellow at The Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, he has edited its inaugural journal, and also contributed to a number of international publications such as The Guardian.

Itai is an alumnus of The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and has worked alongside the late visionary architect Jan Kaplicky at Future System on projects such as the Ferrari Museum in Modena. Working internationally on architecture and urbanism projects, Itai carries out design and thought leadership roles in bodies such as Harvard, Brookings Institution, and Urban Thinkscape.

Hume is a science informed architecture and urban design practice backed by research at its Human Metrics Lab. Hume provides a full design service from concept to post-occupancy using a unique methodology centred around the human outputs of the built environment.

Alexander Pantelyat, M.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Pantelyat completed medical school at Temple University School of Medicine.  He completed his neurology residency and movement disorder fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is board certified in neurology.
Dr. Pantelyat is the director of the Johns Hopkins Atypical Parkinsonism Center. He is a co-investigator at the Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center, specifically for the longitudinal and brain donation studies, which seek to improve our understanding of disease progression, and the psychiatric and cognitive aspects of Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders. He is also co-investigator on an NIH-funded study to identify biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s disease-related cognitive impairment.

Amy Shelton is the director of research for the Center for Talented Youth and a professor and associate dean for research in the School of Education. She holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine and serves on the steering committees for the university-wide Science of Learning Initiative. She was on the faculty in psychological and brain sciences at JHU from 2002 to 2013 before assuming the joint position with the Center for Talented Youth and the School of Education. She also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and on the editorial board for Spatial Cognition and Computation. She is affiliated with a number of different professional organizations in psychology, neuroscience and education. Her research in cognitive psychology/cognitive neuroscience focuses on spatial skills, individual differences and mechanisms of learning, couched in the broad context of understanding the characterization and needs of the individual learner. She has a track record of publications in major academic journals and grant support, and her professional orientation takes a strong basic science approach that is informed by the problems and questions of practice and application.

Dr. Marshall G. Hussain Shuler is an assistant professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research examines the neural mechanisms of reward-dependent learning.

He received a B.A. with distinction in neuroscience from the University of Virginia, where he was a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Apprentice. He completed his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Duke University and received a National Research Service fellowship there. He joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins as an associate professor in 2008 after completing his post-doctoral research at MIT as a Howard Hughes fellow.

Dr. Hussain Shuler has received several awards and distinctions, and has presented his work at several national and international conferences and seminars. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and one book chapter. He is a member of the Society of Neuroscience.

Since 2004, Mr. Terkowitz has served as a general partner at ABS Capital Partners L.P., a venture capital firm. Prior to ABS Capital, Mr. Terkowitz was an officer of The Washington Post Company (now Graham Holdings Company), a diversified media and education company, and the founder and CEO of, among others, DigitalInk Co. (now Washingtonpost.com) and Kenexa BrassRing, Inc. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. Terkowitz served on the board of directors of MicroStrategy Incorporated, a publicly traded business intelligence software company. Mr. Terkowitz currently serves on the board of directors of several privately held companies. Mr. Terkowitz is also on the board of Cornell’s for-profit online education business, e-Cornell. Mr. Terkowitz serves on the not-for-profit Board of Governors of the Johns Hopkins Packard Center and Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute. Mr. Terkowitz holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Cornell University and an M.S. in Chemical Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Elizabeth Tolbert is on the faculty of the Musicology Department at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. Dr. Tolbert earned a bachelor’s in music from Florida State University, a master’s in music from University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Tolbert’s awards include Mellon Fellowship, Fulbright grant for study in Finland, NEH fellowship and ACLS grant. Her recent publications have appeared in “Embodied Voices” (Cambridge University Press), World of Music, Notes, Ethnomusicology, and Yearbook for Traditional Music. Tolbert has formerly served as faculty at New York University, UCLA, and Northwestern University. Tolbert’s research interests in ethnomusicology include intercultural approaches to aesthetics, music theory, gender, ritual and music cognition.

Shea Trahan is a licensed architect and holds a leadership position in the New Orleans based firm of Trapolin-Peer Architects.  Shea has authored a body of research into Resonant Form, an investigation into the intersection of architecture, sound, and the search for enlightenment. Building from an initial conception as a meditation chamber specifically designed for chanting, the project incorporates investigations into form, acoustics, physics, neurology, material systems, physiology, and mysticism.  He holds degrees in architecture from Tulane University and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has a certification in the field of Neuroscience for Architecture from the NewSchool of Architecture and Design. Shea’s work has been featured internationally and has been included in publications and conferences including TEDx Vermilion Street, Architect Magazine, ArchDaily, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, and Creating Sensory Spaces: The Architecture of the Invisible.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Green Building Council Louisiana Chapter, and leads evidence-based design and sustainability efforts for his firm.  Shea’s professional work focuses on theater and museum projects along with adaptive reuse of historic buildings.

Gary Vikan served as director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore from 1994 to 2013 after serving as its assistant director for curatorial affairs and curator of medieval art since 1985. Previously, Vikan was senior associate at Harvard’s Center for Byzantine Studies. A native of Minnesota, he received his B.A. from Carleton College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Vikan is a graduate of the Harvard Program for Art Museum Directors and the National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program.

At the Walters, Vikan led the contextual installation of the museum’s collections, eliminated its general admission fee and provided open access to all of its digital assets. He led efforts to endow nearly two dozen museum positions as well as an exhibition fund. Vikan has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College and the Salzburg Global Seminar. He is currently the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carleton College.

Vikan serves on numerous boards internationally and in the Baltimore region. He was appointed by President Clinton in 1999 to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee and was knighted by the French Minister of Culture in the Order of Arts and Letters in 2002.

Vikan’s most recent books include “From the Holy Land to Graceland” (2012) and “Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director” (SelectBooks, 2016). Vikan lectures extensively on topics as varied as Byzantine art, Elvis Presley, the Shroud of Turin, looted art and cultural property policy, neuroaesthetics and art forgeries.

Xiaoqin Wang is a professor of biomedical engineering, neuroscience, and otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins University. He directs the Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology.

Dr. Wang’s research aims to understand brain mechanisms responsible for auditory perception and vocal communication in a naturalistic environment.
Dr. Wang received his B.S. in electrical engineering at Sichuan University in Sichuan, China, and his M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He completed his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, and subsequently conducted a postdoctoral fellowship in neurophysiology at the University of California in San Francisco.

He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1995 as an associate professor, became an assistant professor in 2002 and accepted the title of full professor in 2002.
Dr. Wang has won several awards and NIH grants for his research and currently serves as principal investigator of the Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology in the Department of Otolaryngology. He has served on the editorial review boards for more than 20 academic journals in the field, has authored or co-authored several dozen peer-reviewed publications and has presented his work nationally and internationally.

Susan Forscher Weiss is the past chair of musicology at the Peabody Institute and holds a joint appointment in the Department of German and Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Weiss’s interests range from medieval and Renaissance music, music theory and musical instruments to music cognition and musical theatre. She has published widely with monographs, edited books, articles and reviews in a number of national and international journals. Awards include several from the National Endowment for the Humanities (including the most recent: NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, Level II (2013-14). Dr. Weiss was the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, 2014.