Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Alain Berthoz, Collège de France, Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and Returning Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor, September 2011

Brett Finlay, Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology and Peter Wall Distinguished Professor, UBC and Chair d'État Collège de France, May 2011

While a Chair d'État at the Collège de France, Professor Finlay will deliver a series of public lectures including: "Combating the Microbial Menace: Battling the Bugs", May 9,  "The interdisciplinarity of Enteric Infectious Diseases", May 17, "The Role of the Microbiota in Enteric Infectious Diseases", May 23, and "Salmonella: From Diarrhea to Typhoid Fever", May 27.

Stanislas Dehaene, Professor and Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France, Paris and Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor, April, 2011

Philippe Sansonetti, Professor and Chair, Microbiology & Infectious Disease, Collège de France, and Professor, Pasteur Institute, Paris and Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor, June, 2011

Lawrence Ward, Professor Psycholgy, UBC and Chair d'État Collège de France, Paris, May, 2010

“I believe that this program will enrich both the PWIAS and the Collège de France as well as provide exciting opportunities for the individual scholars involved.  I hope it will continue indefinitely.”

While a Chair d'État at the Collège de France, Professor Ward delivered a series of public lectures on “Cognition, attention, and consciousness: Synchrony in mind”.  When not preparing or delivering lectures, Dr. Ward visited labs, attended conferences, and accomplished various writing projects including finishing the revision of the paper for publication: “The Thalamic Dynamic Core Theory of Conscious Experience”.

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Alain Berthoz, Professor of Physiology, Collège de France, Paris and Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor, September, 2009

Dinesh Pai, Professor Computer Science, UBC and Chair d'État Collège de France, Paris, May and June 2009

While a d'État Collège at the Collège de France, Professor Pai gave four lectures entitled: "Computational Models of Human Movement".

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Andrew McNabb, Professor Pediatrics and Urologic Sciences, UBC and 2006 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence and STAIS Fellow 2009 and 2010

“These two periods in residence at Stellenbosch were wonderfully productive, and the creative and interdisciplinary environment that STIAS offers generated many new directions for my thoughts and research, as well as connecting me to a number of interdisciplinary colleagues and exciting new opportunities.  I particularly appreciate the fact that STIAS also invited my Ugandan collaborator to join me at Stellenbosch; the synergy achieved was extraordinary and has greatly enhanced the scale and potential of our future collaboration.  I particularly want other PWIAS associates to know what a remarkable and worthwhile opportunity a Fellowship at STIAS represents, and encourage anyone who can to apply.”

During his residency, Dr. McNabb submitted over a dozen papers, gave a dozen invited presentations and interviews, produced a documentary, attended seminars and assisted with graduate student supervision.