Conor lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Here’s a link to my CV.

Bio: Trained in the preclinical neuroscience of addiction, as a PhD student I investigated the neuroplasticity of cocaine and meth craving and was later awarded funds by UCLA toward reversing cocaine-related plasticity with 25.0 mg psilocybin in human subjects. As a postdoc at UChicago with Harriet de Wit, I began work in clinical psychedelic neuroscience with EEG and fMRI across trials involving 0.13 mg and 0.26 mg LSD, 100 mg MDMA, and 7.5 and 15 mg THC—the latter study I designed to compare subjective effects, as well as the brain and behavior, in adolescents vs. adults. Currently at UCLA, I work as a scientist in the Monti Lab, as a course instructor in the Department of Psychology and Semel Institute for Neuroscience, and as a director of the Friends of Semel Institute’s Teen Advisory Council. Outside of UCLA, I direct the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s As1 Next Generation Advisory Council and in 2020, founded Psynautics to address limitations in consciousness research in laboratory settings.

TIMELINE:
Indiana University, 2008 - 2012
Bachelor’s in Neuroscience
Perception and Neuroimaging Laboratory

University of California Irvine, 2012 - 2014
Laboratory Technician
Piomelli Laboratory

Rosalind Franklin University, 2014 - 2018
Oregon Health & Science University, 2018 - 2019
Doctorate in Neuroscience
Wolf Laboratory

University of Chicago, 2019 - 2021
NIDA T32 Fellow in Neurobiology of Substance Use Disorders
Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory

Psynautics Institute, 2020 - Present
Founder
Psynautics Institute

University of California, Los Angeles, 2021 - Present
Assistant Project Scientist
Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Monti Lab
Program Director
Friends of Semel Teen Advisory Council
Lecturer
Ecological Medicine & Psychedelic Studies Initiative

Burroughs Wellcome Fund, 2025 - Present
Consulting, Program Director
As1 Next Generation Advisory Council

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