Michael copy-edits the Centre’s publications.

He is the visiting instructor in Zen at Somerville College, Oxford. Michael also teaches philosophy and religion at two other colleges in Oxford and formerly taught English at Univerzita Karlova, Prague. His undergraduate education was at Oxford and Durham, with postgraduate studies at Sunderland, London and Cambridge. Michael received higher-level training in Zen philosophy and practice from Koro Kaisan Miles, roshi.

His most prominent publication is Mediteren in de Trein, (Uitgeverij Panta Rhei, 2017, Dutch), also available in English, Russian, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, Persian, Czech and Swedish.