Anya is a clinical research consultant currently based in London, UK. At Beckley Psytech, Anya is involved in clinical trials doing qualitative interviews to understand participants’ subjective experiences with a fascinating psychedelic substance, 5-MeO-DMT. Anya is also a board member of Chacruna Institute.
Anya’s research interests include neuroscience and mental health, but also nature conservation and ethnobotany, all interweaved together through psychedelic science. Currently she stays involved both in the conservation and psychiatry research – and hope one day they can merge into one project!
Anya studied biology at the University of Edinburgh and has MSc in Conservation Biology from Imperial College London. Anya completed PhD in psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, where she investigated the origins of psychosis. Anya worked at the forefront of psychedelic research since 2015, as a science officer at the Beckley Foundation, and has provided psychedelic welfare and harm reduction services with PsycareUK and Zendo.