Stuart Hameroff
M.D.

Stuart Hameroff M.D. is a Professor at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has been interested in the enigma of consciousness for many years, partly through his research on the molecular mechanisms of anesthetic gas molecules. In the early 90's he helped organize what has become a series of conferences Toward a Science of Consciousness in Tucson, and co_founded the University of Arizona's Center for Consciousness Studies of which he is associate director. He has been interested in the role of quantum mechanics in consciousness, and has collaborated with British physicist Sir Roger Penrose on a controversial theory of quantum computation in structures called microtubules within the brain's neurons. Hameroff spends most of his professional time in clinical anesthesiology, and his research time with a newly formed "Quantum consciousness group".