Eileen Coly has served as President of Parapsychology Foundation since 1970, holding the position longer than did her mother, Eileen J. Garrett, founder. Mrs. Coly continues to share Garrett’s vision for the Foundation, which is to formulate a multidisciplinary international approach to the study of psychic phenomena with an emphasis on scientific methodology and education. Born and educated in England she traveled extensively with Garrett, working as her assistant. She worked at Creative Age Press and on Tomorrow Magazine and was involved in the creation of PF joining the organization in a full-time capacity in 1966. Proud recipient of the 2001 Parapsychological Association Outstanding Career Award “for her generous support and dedication to the science of parapsychology,” she also had the PF’s Eileen Coly Grant for Research named for her in recognition of her continual support of the field. At the age of 92, she is elated to have the opportunity to co-sponsor and participate in Utrecht II, walking the same path as Eileen Garrett in l953. [Photo taken by Roger Nelson]

Serving since 1978 as Vice President of the Parapsychology Foundation, Lisette Coly since 1999 serves as its Executive Director. Privileged to work closely with her grandmother, during Garrett’s final years at the Foundation as well as with her mother, Eileen Coly, she shares their vision for the work of the PF. With a BA and various business courses, she has had the opportunity to work within the worlds of science, publishing and the international scene as she guides and administers the work of the PF. Listed in both Who’s Who in American Women and Who’s Who in the World, she used her editorial skills in the PF International Conference Proceedings Series, Parapsychology Review, as well as PF’s imprint, Helix Press. Under her direction apart from administering the scholarship and award programs, the publishing program, and Garrett Research Library, she has initiated new directives such as the PF International Affiliate and Student Affiliate Programs, the PF LYCEUM, the Psychic Explorers Club, Perspectives Lecture Series and Eileen Garrett Library Fellowship. Very proud of her conceptualization and execution of many of PF’s International Conferences over the years she is very grateful for the opportunity to partner with the HJBF Foundation to make this historic of global significance Utrecht II conference a reality. [Photo taken by Fabio da Silva]

Wim H. Kramer graduated from Utrecht University with degrees in both clinical and experimental psychology following initial studies in electronics with most of his topics of interest related to parapsychology. He studied at the Laboratory of Parapsychology, part of the experimental psychology unit of Utrecht University with Prof. Martin Johnson and Dr. Sybo Schouten serving as research assistant to Dr. John Palmer co-authoring with Dr. Palmer four publications. Founder of the Parapsychologisch Adviesbureau in l986, a parapsychological consulting service, he obtained in l989 the accreditation as qualified psychologist from the Dutch Psychological Association. Leaving the field from 1992 he pursued a career in the telecoms industry while earning two MBA degrees and has now returned part time to the field. His interests remain in clinical aspects of parapsychology but has broadened to include in-depth historical research regarding Dutch Parapsychology with special interest in pioneers such as Floris Jansen, Prof. Greven with focus on the parapsychology laboratory of the Dutch SPR (1935-1941) with his current main research devoted to the life and works of Prof. Dr. W.H.C Tenhaeff. He organized the "First International Expert-Meeting on Clinical Parapsychology held in the Netherlands. As a board member of Het Johan Borgmanfonds (HJBF) since 1998 he was in a unique position to help bring both his organization and Parapsychology Foundation together to mark the 55th Anniversary of the Parapsychology Foundation’s First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies held in l953 in Utrecht to sponsor this meeting Utrecht II: Charting the Future of Parapsychology. [Photo taken by Roger Nelson]

Irish artist Susan MacWilliam is a Lecturer in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design Dublin, Ireland and a board member of Visual Artists Ireland and Source Photographic Magazine. Based in Belfast she will represent Northern Ireland with a solo exhibition at the prestigious 2009 Venice Biennale art exhibition. Using video, photography and installation she works extensively with archives and direct first hand contact with research bodies and her practice involves the investigation of individual cases particularly those relating to paranormal and perceptual phenomena. Following a residency with the Parapsychology Foundation she has just completed a residency in Winnipeg researching the Thomas Glendenning Hamilton Spirit Photograph Archive housed at the University of Manitoba Archives. She has developed a number of gallery exhibited video works about Eileen J. Garrett including “Eileen” a solo show in London’s Gimpel Fils gallery 2008 and has exhibited as well alongside archival photographs from the collection of psychcial researcher Harry Price in “Seeing is Believing” at the Photographer’s Gallery, London. As Film Archvist of Parapsychology Foundation she will be filming and recording the Proceedings of the conference for archival purposes. [Photo taken by Nancy Zingrone]

Chris Roe has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Northampton. His research interests include psychological correlates of anomalous experiences, concomitants of belief in the paranormal, and the psychology of deception. He is the editor of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. [Photo taken by Roger Nelson]

Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D., is the Director of Publications for the Parapsychology Foundation in New York City. A two-time past President of the Parapsychological Association, she also holds the appointment of Assistant Professor of Research in Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the personality characteristics of experiencers and of successful experimental participants, in the history of parapsychology, and in the history, sociology and rhetoric of science. [Photo taken by Lefty Nelson]

Carlos S. Alvarado has a Ph.D. in psychology and an MA in history. He is the Chairman of Domestic and International Programs of the Parapsychology Foundation, and Assistant Professor of Research at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences of the University of Virginia. His research has centered on the study of out-of-body experiences and on aspects of the history of parapsychology. [Photo taken by Lefty Nelson]

Etzel Cardeña, Ph.D. is the Thorsen Professor in Psychology (including parapsychology and hypnosis) at Lund University, Sweden. He is the senior editor of Varieties of Anomalous Experience and author of more than 150 scientific publications. His research centers on anomalous experiences (including psi-related ones), hypnosis, dissociation, and acute reactions to trauma. [Photo taken by Fabio da Silva]

Deborah L. Delanoy has a Ph.D. in Psychology, from the University of Edinburgh where she also worked as a postdoctoral Research Fellow with Koestler Chair of Parapsychology for thirteen years. Her main research areas include the training and development of ESP and DMILS research. Currently, Deborah is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Northampton, as well as the Associate Dean for the School of Social Sciences, with responsibility for the School’s research, knowledge transfer and enterprise activity, its international developments and all aspects of postgraduate education. She is the founder and director of The Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP), one of the “research centres of excellence” at Northampton, and the largest academically-based research group specializing in parapsychological and transpersonal research in the world. She is the President of the Society for Psychical Research, and a past president and current Board member of the Parapsychological Association. [Photo taken by Nancy Zingrone]

Brian D. Josephson is Emeritus Professor in Physics in the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Mind-Matter Unification project concerned with situations where mind appears to play a role beyond that encompassed by orthodox science. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1962 prediction of tunneling supercurrents. His interests include parapsychology, brain function, music, and fundamental issues in physics. [Photo taken by Carlos Alvarado]

Ed May earned his Ph.D. in low-energy, experimental, nuclear physics in 1968. From 1975 to date, however he has been active in psi research most of which was within STAR GATE — the 20-year, $20M US Government’s program of which he was the director for its final 10 years. Dr. May has provided both theoretical insight and a substantial number of significantly positive experiments results, which span topics from remote viewing to physiological evidence for precognition.

Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. She co-chaired the mind/body interventions ad hoc advisory panel and the Research Technologies Conference of the Office of Alternative Medicine (now the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) and was a member of the Advisory Board, Unconventional Cancer Treatments Study Group, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. She has authored over 100 papers and five books. [Photo taken by Emel Sebuktekin]

Martina Belz has a Ph.D. in psychology. She is clinical supervisor and research advisor at the counseling unit of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg and is engaged in manifold activities in psychotherapy training in Germany and Switzerland with a focus on the topics of exceptional experiences, emotion and gender. Her research has centered on the study of the psychological functioning of people claiming EHEs, case conceptualization and emotion regulation, gaining expertise in psychotherapy, role of gender in psychotherapy. [Photo taken by Nancy Zingrone]

York Dobyns completed a Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University in 1987. He spent 19 years working for the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory, publishing extensively on human-machine interaction (PK) and precognitive remote perception. Since the closure of the P.E.A.R. laboratory in early 2007 he has been working on various projects in Princeton’s department of Electrical Engineering, but continues research and consulting in psi-related areas on his own time. York is active in the Society for Scientific Exploration, having been Program Chair of that organization’s 2006 Annual Meeting and serving currently as one of its elected Councilors. experiments and on remote perception (aka remote viewing). [Photo taken by Fabio da Silva]

Hoyt Edge has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy, and is the Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Professor of Philosophy at Rollins College. The thread of his research (both within and outside of parapsychology) concerns the question of what it means to be a person — from the mind-body problem to his research over the last two decades on cross-cultural concepts of self, in which he has focused on Balinese and Australian Aboriginal cultures. [Photo taken by Deborah Delanoy]

Thilo Hinterberger has a PhD in physics. He is currently with the University Medical Center in Freiburg im Breslau in Germany. His research focuses on neuroscientific methods such as the development of Brain-Computer Interfaces as a means for alternative communication and consciousness research. His parapsychological interests led to studies on the measurement of telepathic connections and presentiment precognition. [Photo taken by Fabio da Silva]

Eva Lobach graduated in Psychological Research Methods (M.Sc.) at the University of Amsterdam in 1999. Since then, her research in Amsterdam has focused on a mix of parapsychological and psychological topics. In 2005 she attended the Rhine Research Center’s Summer Study Program. Next year she hopes to finish her Ph.D. on intuition, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dick Bierman at the University of Humanistics in Utrecht. [Photo taken by Nancy Zingrone]

Fátima Regina Machado has a Ph.D in Communication and Semiotics and is currently a doctoral candidate in Social Psychology. She is Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUCSP), where she also coordinates both COG.br — Laboratório de Ciéncias Cognitivas, and Inter Psi — Grupo de Estudo em Semiótica, Interconectividade e Consciéncia together with Dr. Wellington Zangari. The focus of her research has been the intersection between semiotic studies and psychology, concerning especially human cognitive aspects of psi experiences, their interpretation and their configuration as symbolic language. Her main focus is on spontaneous cases reports, especially those related to poltergeist and haunting-type cases. [Photo taken by Carlos Alvarado]

Roger Nelson has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. His focus is on the interaction of consciousness with the physical world. He was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University from 1980 to 2002. He is the founder of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), and has directed the project since its inception in 1997. [Photo taken by Lefty Nelson]

Richard Shoup received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently President of the non-profit Boundary Institute in Los Altos, California, where his research interests include foundations of physics, mathematics, and computer science. [Photo taken by Fabio da Silva]

Christine Simmonds-Moore has a Ph.D. in psychology. She is a senior lecturer in psychology at Liverpool Hope University where she teaches in a team-taught course on parapsychology and coordinates Personality Individual Differences. Her research has focused on the relationships between personality (in particular, schizotypy and boundary related variables) and states of consciousness and how they relate to anomalous experiences and psi performance. [Photo taken by Brian Josephson]

Robert Van de Castle has a Ph.D. in psychology. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia and a Former Director of the Sleep and Dream Laboratory at the University of Virginia Medical Center. A clinical psychologist, Van de Castle has worked for over 40 years in such areas as the content and interpretation of dreams. His work in parapsychology has centered on psychological and anthropological aspects of ESP. Van de Castle is both a past President of the Association for the Study of Dreams and the Parapsychological Association. He was co-editor of the Dream Network Bulletin and is an Advisory Editor for SUNY’s Series in Dream Studies. [Photo taken by Nancy Zingrone]

Prof. Harald Walach holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (1990) and a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Science (1995). He is a research professor in psychology at the University of Northampton. His background is in evaluation of unconventional interventions, exceptional experiences and mindfulness research. He has conducted a variety of clinical, experimental and epidemiological studies. He has published on mindfulness as an intervention and developed the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory. He is the editor-in-chief of the Karger journal Research in Complementary Medicine — Forschende Komplementïmedizin and of the Wiley journal Spirituality and Health International. [Photo taken by Fabio da Silva]

Eberhard Bauer is a psychologist. He is also a council member of the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg (Germany) where he directs the departments “Counseling & Information” and “Historical Studies, Archives & Library.” Among his interests are counseling work with persons reporting exceptional experiences and research into biographical and cultural-historical aspects of paranormal phenomena. [Photo taken by Nancy Zingrone]

Hans Gerding has a Ph.D. in philosophy. He is director of the Parapsychologische Instituut in Utrecht, and holds a special chair of Metaphysics at Leiden University’s Faculty of Philosophy. His work focuses on: philosophical issues that relate to the content of anomalous experiences, the scientific research into and clinical aspects of a variety of anomalous experiences. [Photo taken by Emel Sebuktekin]

Gerd H. Hövelmann, M.A., has studied philosophy, linguistics, literature, and psychology. From 1984 through 1993 he was a Senior Research Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Marburg. Since then he has been a free-lance author, translator and business consultant. He has published numerous articles in areas such as philosophy and history of science, cultural history, linguistics, semiotics, evolutionary biology, space science as well as parapsychology and other areas of anomalistics. [Photo taken by Lefty Nelson]