A theoretical physicist trained at Cambridge, in his native UK, and at MIT, in Massachussetts, USA. After a year at Stanford in 1973, Dr Alex joined Maharishi International University, where he gained expertise in relationships between the sciences of East and West. Insights gained from such comparisons inform his current expertise in AYUSH systems of medicine, cognitive sciences, and consciousness studies. In all those fields he has contributed fundamental new ideas. He is currently Professor of Yoga and Physical Science at S-VYASA Yoga University, Bangalore. He was co-founder of the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine and has published about 100 scientific pages in that field for the past twenty years.