Martin Picard, Ph.D., is Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center where he directs the Mitochondrial Psychobiology Group. Pioneering Mitochondrial Psychobiology, Martin has bridged the science of energy and the human experience to advance Healing Science—a field dedicated to understanding the dynamic energetic processes that keep us healthy. As Chair of Energy and Health at the Columbia Aging Center, he leads NIH-funded research on the mind-mitochondria connection that has uncovered connections between subjective experiences and mitochondria in the brain and immune system, linked mental stress to energy metabolism and aging, discovered that hair greying is reversible, and mapped the diversity of mitochondria across the brain and body.
Author of the upcoming book ENERGY, Martin collaborates globally to drive scientific and cultural transformation around energy, health, and healing. He finds inspiration in nature, exploring energy and consciousness with his family, friends, and colleagues. Martin received his PhD at McGill University in Canada in 2012, completed postdoctoral training with the father of mitochondrial genetics Doug Wallace at the University of Pennsylvania, and opened his laboratory at Columbia in 2015.
