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:

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