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Abigail Calder

Abigail Calder is a co-editor for the MIND Blog and the coordinator for Elements of Science. Outside of MIND, Abigail is a doctoral candidate in medical neuroscience at the University of Fribourg. Her [...]

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Ada Jaarsma

Ada S. Jaarsma is a Professor of Philosophy at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. Her recent publications include the co-edited collection Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the [...]

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Andrea Jungaberle

Dr. med. Andrea Jungaberle is a co-founder and board member of the MIND Foundation. She also serves as OVID Health Systems’ Medical Director and MIND’s Director of Collaboration and Media. She is a [...]

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Andy Meijer

Andy Meijer is a Research and Knowledge Exchange associate at the MIND Foundation. He has a strong fascination for the breadth and variety of consciousness that people experience. To explore this, he [...]

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Anil Seth

Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex and co-director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind, and [...]

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Anna Ciaunica, Ph.D.

Dr Anna Ciaunica is a philosopher and cognitive scientist, currently Principal Investigator at the Centre for Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Anna leads [...]

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Camelia Manaila

Camelia Manaila, MD was born in Targoviste, Romania. In September 2019 she graduated from the University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu, Faculty of Medicine. After her MD she did a post-graduate Erasmus [...]

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Camile Bahi

Camile is a former MIND Programs associate who initiated and coordinated the Blog Translation Group, and kickstarted and advised the MMA Neuroscience Section. He graduated from Pharmacy in France and [...]

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Chris Letheby

Dr Chris Letheby is a Lecturer in Philosophy at The University of Western Australia who specializes in the philosophy of mind and cognition. His primary research interest is the therapeutic and [...]

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Christoph Benner

Christoph Benner, born 1991 in Berlin, is a clinical neuroscientist. His Master’s thesis revolved around a bioenergetic dysfunction in depression and included applying ketamine to neurons in vitro to [...]

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Colin Reiff, MD

Collin Reiff, MD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, where he specializes in treating trauma and substance use disorders in the Steven A. [...]

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David Dupuis, Ph.D.

David Dupuis, PhD, is a Social Anthropologist and a Clinical Psychologist. He is a research fellow in the Laboratory of Social Anthropology at the College de France, Paris, and member of the Hearing [...]

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David Yaden, Ph.D.

David B. Yaden, PhD, completed his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and is now an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focus is on the [...]

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Dea Siggaard Stenbæk

Dr. Stenbæk is an associate professor at University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital. She conducts research from an integrated experimental approach where her overall research focus [...]

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Devin B. Terhune

Dr. Devin B. Terhune is a researcher in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he directs the Timing, Awareness, and Suggestion lab. He studies various features of [...]

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Eero Castrén

Prof. Eero Castrén is currently researching at the Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Finland.  His research has focused on the effects of neurotrophic factors, particularly the [...]

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Eric Lonergan

Eric received his B.Sc. in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked as a research assistant at a lab investigating the neural underpinnings of post-traumatic stress with [...]

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Gerhard Gründer

Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard Gründer is Professor of Psychiatry and head of the Molecular Neuroimaging Department at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim. He is also the Principal Investigator [...]

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Guilherme Gomes

Dr. Guilherme Gomes is a post-doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany. He holds a PhD and a Master of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Santa [...]

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Gül Dölen, MD, PhD

MIND's scientific advisory board member Dr. Dölen earned her M.D., Ph.D. at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she carried out seminal work on the pathogenesis [...]

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Henrik Jungaberle

Dr. sc. hum. Henrik Jungaberle is the Director of the MIND Foundation and CEO of OVID Health Systems. He is a researcher, science entrepreneur, and author in public health, psychedelics, and [...]

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Jagoda Mackowiak

Jagoda received her education at Maastricht University as well as Humboldt University in Berlin, where her studies revolved around molecular biology, neuroscience, and botany. She is a part of the [...]

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James Barnes

James Barnes is a psychotherapist and writer, with interests in post-modern psychoanalysis and philosophy. His core interest is in relational, intersubjective models of psyche, world and the distress [...]

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Jannis Ulke

Jannis Ulke is a PhD student at Charité University Berlin. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Science and a Master of Science in Toxicology from the University of Potsdam, Germany. He [...]

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Jared Parmer, Ph.D.

Jared Parmer has a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University, and an MS in Applied Economics from Florida State University. He is particularly interested in the ethics of design, and the prospects of [...]

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Johanna Kemmerer

Johanna Kemmerer is a psychologist, psychiatric nurse, and a member of the MIND foundation. She has been working with the Lucia N°03 therapeutic light device since 2013, organizing and facilitating [...]

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Johannes Reckweg

Johannes Reckweg is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology at Maastricht University. He is investigating the cognitive mechanisms and therapeutic potential of [...]

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Jos ten Berge, Ph.D.

Jos ten Berge received his PhD in 2004 with a dissertation on Drugs in Art: From Opium to LSD, 1798-1968 (in Dutch). He is Assistant Professor in Art History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has [...]

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Katrin Preller

Katrin Preller received her M.Sc. (Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology) from University of Konstanz, Germany. She joined the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she investigated the [...]

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Kristine Mitchell

Kristine Mitchell is a scientific journalist with a background in biopsychology and music cognition. She is a Master’s graduate from the University of Amsterdam, where she researched the social [...]

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Kristopher Nielsen

Dr. Kristopher Nielsen is a clinical psychologist and researcher based in Wellington, New Zealand. He is currently based at TalkingPoint Ltd., and is associated with Te Herenga Waka, Victoria [...]

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Lea Mertens

Lea Mertens is a PhD candidate in the Department of Prof. Dr. Gründer at the ZI Mannheim working with the MIND Foundation and the Charité Berlin on establishing the first clinical trial of psilocybin [...]

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Lucca Jaeckel

Lucca Jaeckel is one of the editors of the MIND blog. Lucca has a B.Sc. in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Freiburg, Germany, and a B.Sc. in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University [...]

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Lukas A. Basedow

Dr. Lukas A. Basedow is a postdoctoral researcher at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany, focused on investigating substance use, addition, and psychotherapy. He has been a volunteer for the MIND [...]

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Mackenzie Amara

By trade Mackenzie is a writer, coach, & 5Rhythms® teacher. By vocation she is a Jungian analyst-in-training & clinical psychology doctoral student. Her life’s work is to heal trauma.

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Malin Vedøy Uthaug

Dr. Malin Vedøy Uthaugis an altered states of consciousness researcher with interest in peak performance and the process of hormesis. She is currently (as of November 2021) working as a post-doctoral [...]

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Marc Wittmann

Marc Wittmann is a research fellow at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health in Freiburg, Germany. He received his doctorate (1997) and habilitation (2007) at the Institute [...]

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Marco Aqil

Marco Aqil is a Ph.D. candidate at the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging (Academic Medical Center) in Amsterdam, where he is studying the brain from a computational and mathematical perspective. He [...]

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Martha Nari Havenith

Martha Nari Havenith is a Max Planck research group leader at the Ernst-Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience. Her research revolves around the notion that most brain activity is in fact not tied to [...]

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Marvin Däumichen

Marvin Däumichen is a co-founder of the MIND Foundation and currently serves as the Head of Members & Community as well as INSIGHT Forum Director. In this role, he develops and manages MIND's the [...]

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Max Wolff

Dr. rer. nat. Max Wolff is a psychologist and psychotherapist. As Director of Research and Training, he is a board member of the MIND Foundation and directs its Augmented Psychotherapy Training (APT) [...]

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Michael Quiñones

Michael Quiñones, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Plantation, FL, US and a member of both the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and the [...]

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Michelle Baker Jones, BA, MBACP

Michelle Baker Jones is an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor in private practice, based in London. She is also a member of the Imperial College London psychedelic research team. And, she was [...]

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Milan Scheidegger

Milan Scheidegger, MD-PhD,  is a visionary and integrative thinker with an academic background in medicine, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry. He is driven by the passion to understand the [...]

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Milena Marinković

Milena Marinković is a PhD candidate in neurobiology at the University of Exeter, where she researches the evolution of ciliomotor neurons at the Living Systems institute. She is enthusiastic about [...]

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MIND Executive Board

The MIND Foundation's Executive Board are the steering group and main operational representatives of the organization. The Board consists of Dr. sc. hum. Henrik Jungaberle, Dr. phil. Marvin Däumichen, [...]

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Muad abd el Hay

Muad Abd el Hay is a Ph.D. candidate at the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Heidelberg.

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Natasha Mason

Natasha Mason is a postdoctoral researcher at the University Of Maastricht, Department of Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology. She has a background in (neuro)psychology and pharmacy. Utilizing [...]

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Nick Milne

Nick Milne, PhD, is the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Octarine, a synthetic biology company aiming to solve our greatest health challenges by developing novel methods to produce [...]

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Patrick Wentorp

Patrick Wentorp is an Integration Facilitator at the MIND Foundation. He worked with MIND between the years 2019 and 2022 and was one of the on-site Managers of INSIGHT 2019. In 2021, he took the [...]

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Rachel Powelson

Rachel Powelson gets to be part of the change she wishes to see as she helps out at MIND with managing the Academy events, procuring meaningful content for social media, assisting in database entry, [...]

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Saga Briggs

Saga Briggs is a former editor of the MIND blog. She is a journalist with a background in science communications and the literary arts. For many years she managed InformED, a resource that connects [...]

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Samuli Kangaslampi, Ph.D.

Samuli Kangaslampi is a licensed clinical psychologist and Ph.D. in Psychology from Finland. His doctoral research focused on the mechanisms of change involved in psychological treatment of [...]

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Sandeep Nayak

Sandeep Nayak, MD, is a psychiatrist and postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. He’s primarily focused on investigating psychedelics as treatments [...]

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Selina Heuser

After completing her BSc and MSc in Psychology at Maastricht University, Selina felt inspired to pursue a career in the field of psychedelic research and therapy. As Research & Knowledge Exchange [...]

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Steph Lee

Steph Lee is a freelance writer who holds an M.A. in Science Journalism from Columbia University in New York.

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Steven N. Gold

Steven N. Gold, PhD, was a professor in the doctoral psychology program of Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US and the founding Director of NSU's Trauma Resolution & [...]

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Steven Osborne

Steven Osborne is a cognitive science master’s student at the University of Osnabrück, originally from Orlando, Florida.

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Tobias Buchborn

Tobias Buchborn is a German lsychologist with a PhD in neurobiology. His research has been devoted to the mechanism of action of psychedelic drugs (including LSD and DMT), integrating behavioural, [...]

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Vanja Palmers

Vanja Palmers was born in Austria and grew up in Switzerland. His career as a student at the University of Zürich and as the founder of a successful business startup came to a sudden halt when he [...]

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Vlad Nicolescu

Hailing from Romania, Vlad is a MIND Academy and Research and Knowledge Exchange Associate. He is currently working on a number of educational initiatives regarding psychedelics and other psychoactive [...]

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Willy Schweitzer

Willy Schweitzer is a former publishing and printing entrepreneur from Frankfurt, born in 1943. He is a shareholder of the MIND Foundation gGmbH and our clinical partner company, OVID Health Systems [...]

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