Evan Lewis-Healy, PhD

Evan Lewis-Healey is a postdoctoral researcher within the Flourishing Intelligence Programme (FLIP) at the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford. Currently, his work aims to understand the computational neural mechanisms underlying meditation practice, ultimately informing technological developments that can support human flourishing. Prior to this, Evan completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he studied the cognitive neuroscience of psychedelics, breathwork, and meditation. Within his PhD, he ran the first study to simultaneously examine both the neural and experiential correlates of high-ventilation breathwork, a powerful non-pharmacological state similar to psychedelics. Prior to his PhD, Evan studied Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, and was a science writer. He is broadly interested in the neuroscience of altered states of consciousness, and how these insights may reduce suffering at scale.