Nicholas J. Matiasz

Nick serves as the Scientific Program Director for CCR North America, where he has volunteered since July 2020.

Nick received his Ph.D. in medical informatics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied causal reasoning in neuroscience. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tufts University, where he performed interdisciplinary research in psychology and computer science. He has also worked in the Department of Neurology Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Selected publications:

Milicevic, A., Blazely, A., Bragin, A., Dunseath, R. W. J., Matiasz, N. J., Ribeiro, M. W., Sardeto Deolindo, C., Kozasa, E. H., & Wallace, B. A. (2025). Consciousness, mindfulness, and introspection: Integrating first- and second-person phenomenological inquiry with experimental and EEG data to study the mind. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1558453. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1558453

Matiasz, N. J., Wood, J., & Silva, A. J. (2024). Quantifying convergence and consistency. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16561

Matiasz, N. J., & Wallace, B. A. (2024). Contemplative science: Expanding the scope of empiricism to increase the convergence of evidence. In B. Flanagan & K. Clough (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of research methods in spirituality and contemplative studies (pp. 73–88). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341598-9

Matiasz, N. J., Wood, J., Wang, W., Silva, A. J., & Hsu, W. (2021). Experiment selection in meta-analytic piecemeal causal discovery. IEEE Access, 9, 97929–97941. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3093524

Matiasz, N. J., Wood, J., Doshi, P., Speier, W., Beckemeyer, B., Wang, W., … & Silva, A. J. (2018). ResearchMaps.org for integrating and planning research. PLoS ONE, 13(5), e0195271. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195271