James W. Sanders is a cognitive neuroscientist and phenomenologist working with the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. His research concerns the scientific measurement and description of psychedelic experience, with a focus on micro-phenomenology, neurophenomenology, and psychedelic psychometrics. As a micro-phenomenologist in the DMT research group headed by Dr. Chris Timmermann, James works primarily with short acting tryptamines, notably 5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT, and extended state DMT. He is involved in the development of the micro-phenomenological analysis method for altered and non-ordinary states of consciousness, and also the development of new, more precise methods to study the meaning making and integration processes that surround those states.