PSYLERON - Key Persons

Adam Curry became involved with the PEAR lab in 2002. During high school, his observance of a gravity-related anomaly led to his invention of a novel technique and device for short-term earthquake forecasting. He spent several years traveling, researching, and organizing a global forecasting network. He was lauded by the US Congress, the Office of Naval Research, and was the 2002 recipient of the CERES connection prize, for which the MIT Lincoln Laboratory named an asteroid after him. His career as an inventor was diverted by an interest in poetry, and he graduated from the University of Colorado in 2008 with a degree in Creative Writing. Adam assists with technical writing and hardware development at Psyleron, where he has worked full-time since 2008. His special interests are the scientific implications of mind-world connection, and the application of consciousness research to social and artistic philosophy.

Job Titles:

• President and Treasurer of ICRL

Brenda J. Dunne is President and Treasurer of ICRL, and was Laboratory Manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from 1979 to 2007. She holds a Masters degree in developmental psychology from the University of Chicago, but her deeper interests are in the humanities, the history and philosophy of religion, and cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of consciousness that incorporate metaphysical as well as scientific traditions. She also serves as Education Officer of the Society for Scientific Exploration.

Herb Mertz co-founded the company with John Valentino and the PEAR team and served as its initial financial investor. He first encountered the lab during his time at Princeton as an undergraduate and then went on to a career in business. He is the author of The Selection Effect, a one-of-a-kind book that chronicles his several thousand hours of work with Random Event Generators during his time at Psyleron.

Ian Cook works at Psyleron as a statistician and software developer. He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University, and an M.S. in Statistics from Lehigh University. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and writing, and has developed software and statistical methods for the semiconductors industry.

Justin Wilson graduated from Lehigh University with highest honors in Integrated Business and Engineering. As the highest-ranking electrical engineering student, Justin was the chapter president of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and an IBE Top Scholar, as well as a Johns Hopkins Mathematics Scholar, a Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholar, a member of Tau Beta Pi, and a peer tutor. As an undergraduate, he worked for Lockheed Martin's Integrated Systems and Solutions, and General Motor's Global Energy Department. Justin had the opportunity to visit the PEAR lab and work with Psyleron for his senior project, where he learned about consciousness-related research and its implications. Justin joined Psyleron full-time in January, 2007. Justin previously served as Psyleron's Product Manager, where he oversaw hardware and software development and product updates. He now works primarily on experimental software projects.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of the Board of ICRL

Robert G. Jahn is Chairman of the Board of ICRL, and was director of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from its establishment in 1979 until its close in 2007. An applied physicist and aerospace engineer, for 15 years he was Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has presided over major research programs in advanced aerospace propulsion systems in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force, for which he was awarded a Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion. Author of two major textbooks and several hundred publications in various technical fields, he is a recipient of the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American Association of Engineering Education, a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Vice President of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and for sixteen years was a Director of the Hercules Corporation. In 2006 he received the Edgar Mitchell Award for Noetic Leadership.

recieved his Ph.D in theoretical physics from Princeton University. He spent 19 years studying human-machine interaction and remote perception as part of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory. He serves on the Council of the Society for Scientific Exploration and remains active in research on consciousness-related phenomena. He has also published papers on cosmology and on the relation between zero-point energy and the origin of inertia.