Luis R. Sandoval, PhD is Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School, and a at the Public Psychiatry Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and at the Commonwealth Research Center. His clinical specialization is in the diagnosis and treatment of adults with severe mental illness, including psychotic and mood disorders. Dr. Sandoval has worked in Mexico, Central America, and in the U.S. and has nearly 14 years of clinical experience. His clinical and research interests include computer-human interaction, cognitive remediation in psychotic disorders, and cross-cultural diagnoses.
Elizaveta Solomonova, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary researcher in McGill University's Neurophilosophy Lab, at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. Dr. Solomonova is interested in neuroscience and phenomenology of conscious experiences across the sleep and wake states, including dreaming, hallucinatory phenomena, parasomnias, and altered states of consciousness. She has extensive experience in research on dreams, sleep, memory consolidation, and meditation practices: she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Montreal in Psychiatry and Philosophy, and an MSc in Experimental Psychology. Dr. Solomonova is trained in cognitive neuroscience and in philosophy of mind, and is particularly interested in hybrid states of consciousness, where waking and dreaming boundaries are blurred. Her most recent projects are centred around questions of how the social world influences how and when people sleep, dream, and share experiences across cultures and social groups.
