Shima Beigi

Dr. Shima Beigi is a Senior Researcher at the Centre Leo Apostel (CLEA), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience, consciousness studies, and resilience science, funded by the Templeton and Kacyra Foundations. She founded Mindfulness Engineering™, a consultancy integrating STEM, mindfulness, and complex systems.

Her research explores goal-directedness in life, brain-body connections, and resilience in socio-technological-ecological systems. She investigates self-organization, evolution, regime shifts, and path dependency to enhance system synergy. As director of the Longevity Plus research group, she focuses on longevity through resilience frameworks.

Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize consciousness (predictive processing, mind-body theories), resilience in smart cities, and complex systems. Themes span neuroscience, evolutionary biology, urban planning, and digital mental health, with growing interest in the noosphere and global governance.

Grants & Collaborations: Current work is funded by the Templeton Foundation and Kacyra Foundation. She collaborates with Prof. Francis Heylighen, Dr. Tomás Veloz, and Dr. Clement Vidal.

Labs & Teams: She leads the Longevity Plus research group at CLEA, focusing on resilience and sustainability. Her projects include The Origins of Goal-Directedness and theoretical frameworks for distributed cognition.