Hang Yang has carried out his doctoral studies in computational cognitive neuroscience in Marieke van Vugt’s Lab at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). Hang joined a new line of work in the Lab linking self-consciousness, meditation practice and virtual reality. The project entitled “The Home Within” aims at investigating the role of bodily self-consciousness in meditation, applying the neuroscience of self-consciousness with meditation scholarship, and will develop and test a new neurotechnology platform for contemplative practice and meditation research.