Meditation Research Program

Dr. Matthew D. Sacchet, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Meditation Research Program at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General). Dr. Sacchet and his team study advanced meditation: skills, states, and stages of contemplative practice that unfold with mastery and time. Since 2012, he has authored more than 135 publications, presented more than 150 times at international, national, regional and local conferences and speaker series including at Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale Universities, and the United Nations, and been cited more than 9,000 times. He has received generous support from numerous foundations and repeat awards from the primary federal funding bodies in the United States, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). His work has been covered by many major media outlets, including CBC, CBS, Forbes, Men’s/Women’s Health, NBC, NPR, Scientific American, TIME, Vox, and The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes named him one of its “30 Under 30.” Dr. Sacchet is an Associate Editor of the leading meditation academic journal Mindfulness and a Research Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute.