Robin Carhart-Harris
Psychedelic Researcher (PhD)
Robin Carhartt-Harris founded the Centre for Psychedelic
Research at Imperial College London in April 2019, the first
such centre in the world. He then became the Ralph Metzner
Distinguished Professor in Neurology and Psychiatry at
University of California, San Francisco in 2021 and founded the
Carhart-Harris Lab in 2023. Robin and his colleagues have
completed multimodal human functional neuroimaging studies with
LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and DMT, and clinical trials of psilocybin
therapy for various disorders, including three trials in
depression, plus trials in anorexia and fibromyalgia syndrome.
He has published in The New England Journal of Medicine (x4),
Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Cell, Lancet
Psychiatry, Science Advances, JAMA Psychiatry, American Journal
of Psychiatry, and more. His current research at UCSF focuses on
the mechanisms of action of psilocybin and psilocybin-therapy.