I developed an extensive business background through many years' work with a major corporation in the USA, where I also trained in various complementary therapies. Since moving to Britain in 1984 I have been involved with a variety of activities, which included authoring or co-authoring six published works, running a column in an NHS Newsletter on Complementary Medicine and occasionally lecturing to NHS medical staff on these topics. Other activities have involved conference organisation and co-founding an International Training Program in Essential Oils at a major university in the States.

Currently, in addition to my role as Network Manager for SMN, I am a Research Fellow of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group based in Princeton, New Jersey, representing complementary medicine matters. I am a trustee of The Dragon Project Trust, and an advisor to Environic Foundation International (based in Washington, DC).

My interests span science, religion and psychical research (which I see as forming a bridge between them). All three activities date back to my undergraduate days at Cambridge , where I read mathematics and was later a Fellow at Trinity College , and all three fall within the remit of the SMN. My professional area of research is  cosmology - for my PhD I studied the first second of the universe under Stephen Hawking - and includes such topics as the early universe, dark matter and the anthropic principle. In 1985 I moved to London University, where I am now Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary. I have a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion, giving frequent talks in this area, and was recently awarded a Templeton grant to organize a series of conferences on the evidence for cosmological fine-tuning. This has led to a book, entitled  "Universe or Multiverse", which I edited.  I have been a member of the Society for Psychical Research for some 30 years, serving as its President in the period 2000-2004. My approach to the subject is mainly theoretical: I'm  particularly keen to extend physics to incorporate consciousness and associated mental and spiritual phenomena.  The SMN is unique in being broad enough to accommodate all three of my activities and I'm delighted to be currently serving on the Programming Committee.  

Ray is an award-winning writer and television producer specialising in science and medicine. An Oxford graduate in biochemistry, Ray also has a Masters degree in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex . He tried to do research on endorphins and the brain at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School , London , before falling for the temptations of the media world. Ray has over 20 years' experience in writing, journalism and TV documentary production. He has worked with Channel Four News, Channel Four Dispatches, BBC Panorama and the Discovery Channel, and is a founder director and currently commissioning editor with Frontier Television Ltd, a unique global internet TV channel featuring programmes from the cutting edge of science, spirituality and ecosocial responsibility.

Marilyn Monk is a research scientist in the field of developmental biology working at the University of Edinburgh until 1974 and for 30 years at the Institute of Child Health at University College London until she retired in 2004. She is Professor Emeritus in Molecular Embryology at the University of London. Her work interests include the mechanisms of replication and repair of DNA, cell signalling and intercellular communication, regulation of gene expression in development, deprogramming and formation of totipotent stem cells and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Clinically, her work has led to developments in assisted reproduction and early diagnosis of genetic disease, and the isolation and identification of new embryo/cancer genes towards prevention, treatment or cure of cancer. In addition to her scientific career, she has a longstanding interest in philosophy, psychology, religion and spirituality and is qualified as a Psychosynthesis Counsellor and Alexander Technique Teacher.

Born in England and brought up in Ireland. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and the Kings Inns. Spent two decades working in business before realising an earlier ambition in being called to the Irish bar in 1987. Currently a practising barrister based in the Law Library in Dublin. Jacqueline runs the SMN Irish Group and since joining the Board has taken on the responsibility for co-ordinating the national and local groups in the British Isles and in the wider world -with the exception of the continent of Europe (which is the responsibility of another board member). Her reasons for joining the Network:
"I am an enthusiastic member of SMN because I have found that its academic range and its ethos exactly correspond to my personal intellectual interests and approach. I have found within it a milieu which combines intellectual rigour with openmindedness and good fellowship, almost a spiritual home."

I work as a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist in an Adolescent Unit in London . I am born in Calcutta , India where I was initially trained as an Eye surgeon before I changed my career, receiving my psychiatry training in Oxford . I have also worked at Institute of Psychiatry for research in cognitive psychopharmacology. As my professional interests span from neuropsychiatry and neurodevelopment to spiritual psychiatry, interfaces of science and religion and consciousness studies, network provides me a forum to accommodate my ideas and activities, to remain open and curious to the deeper questions of human experience and existence.

I am also a poet, playwright, classical dancer and independent filmmaker. I have published two books of poetry, written and directed musicals and theatres and performed widely. I have made several awareness films on mental health related subjects (including an award winning film on Autism etc) as well as short films. My debut feature ' Ithaca ' is in preproduction at present.