Meet the Windbridge Team:
Windbridge Investigators

Meet our international team of interdisciplinary researchers:

Julie Beischel, PhD, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Windbridge, graduated magna cum laude and with honors with a BS in Environmental Sciences from Northern Arizona University and received her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona. Dr. Beischel was the first recipient of the William James Post-doctoral Fellowship in Mediumship and Survival Research at the University of Arizona where she served as Co-Director of the VERITAS Research Program with Dr. Gary Schwartz before moving the research and the screening and training of prospective research mediums to Windbridge in January of 2008. Her research interests center on the survival of consciousness hypothesis and include proof-focused studies on mediums' communication with discarnates and process-focused studies on mediums' experiences of that communication. Dr. Beischel's academic training in several interdisciplinary scientific fields allows her to design and apply traditional research methods to investigating these more unconventional topics of study. Dr. Beischel is currently a member of the Parapsychological Association, a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Rhine Research Center and the Forever Family Foundation, and an Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Shift-In-Action Luminary. She is the recipient of a 2008 Bial Foundation research grant and has published a number of peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Journal of Scientific Exploration, Journal of Parapsychology, and Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing.

Mark Boccuzzi, Co-Founder of Windbridge, holds a BS in computer science with a minor in broadcast communications. Mark has over ten years experience in technical project management having worked on both consumer products and research and development projects. Originally from the software industry, Mark was Executive Producer of Consumer Entertainment at Human Code Presage. More recently he was a Project Manager at the Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception where he worked on a wide range of research and exhibit development projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additionally, Mark spent six years in survival of consciousness research investigating spontaneous cases of apparitions and related haunting phenomena in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2005 he successfully completed the Summer Study Program in Parapsychology presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the Rhine Research Center. Mark's research interests include survival of consciousness, intuition, applied psychokinesis, and distant mental interactions on living systems (DMILS). In addition to his research role, Mark is also Director of Operations at Windbridge.

Adam J. Rock, PhD, Adjunct Research Fellow and Editor of the Journal of Mindbody States at Windbridge, received his BA (Hons) degree and PhD in Psychology from Charles Sturt University, Australia. Dr. Rock has held academic appointments at Charles Sturt University and The University of New South Wales, and is currently a lecturer in Psychology at Deakin University. His research interests include the phenomenology of what have typically been referred to as altered states of consciousness; conceptual problems associated with consciousness; shamanism and shamanic journeying experiences with special emphasis on the ontology and epistemology of shamanic journeying imagery; philosophical problems of psychology; and purported discarnate communication experiences. Dr. Rock has published in all of these areas.

Chad Mosher, PhD, Research Associate at Windbridge, holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from The University of Memphis, and a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Idaho State University. He is currently a counselor educator and chair of a counseling program in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Mosher is primarily interested in the potential therapeutic applications of the current research at Windbridge (e.g., mediumship as a counseling intervention), as well as cultural aspects of mediumship, survival of consciousness, and healing. He is trained as a child and family therapist, in therapeutic modalities such as play therapy, art therapy, and sand tray, and utilizes humanistic and post-modern (i.e., multiculturalism, social constructionism) interventions within the counseling relationship. His prior research focused on culture, identity, and phenomenological experience and used qualitative methodologies. Dr. Mosher also received his Masters in Applied Music Performance from the University of Connecticut and he remains a music educator and freelance performer (cello) in spirit if not in practice.

Michael Biuso, Research Assistant at Windbridge, received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Arizona where he served as a research assistant in the VERITAS Research Program. His research interests include healing, meditation, and the survival of consciousness after death.

...and growing!

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