Anna Ermakova (UK /Russia)

Anya has a motley background and broad research interests combining nature conservation, ethnobotany, neuroscience and psychiatry, interweaving and connecting these diverse paths through psychedelic science. Deep love for nature and wildlife has motivated Anya to study biology at the University of Edinburgh, while a quest to understand altered states of consciousness has prompted her to specialise in neuroscience and later continued during her PhD in psychiatry at Cambridge, where she investigated the origins of psychosis.

She then worked for the NHS, as a senior researcher in psychiatry. After a brief stint as a clinical trial manager, she had decided to pursue her passion for nature, by studying Conservation Science at Imperial College London. Anya conducted fieldwork in South and West Texas, Colombia, Borneo, Costa Rica and the lake Baikal in Russia.

Currently Anya is working as a clinical scientist on the trials with 5-MeO-DMT in the UK, but stays in touch with broader ethnobiological research through affiliations with the Cactus Conservation Institute and Chacruna Institute.

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