Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD

Associate Professor;
Associate Center Director;
Susan Hill Ward Professor in Psychedelics and Consciousness

Albert Garcia-Romeu, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research examines the effects of psychedelics in humans, with a focus on psilocybin as an aid in the treatment of addiction. He earned his doctorate in psychology in 2012 from Sofia University in Palo Alto, CA where he studied self-transcendence, spiritual experiences, and their relationship to mental health. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he trained in the conduct of clinical research with psychedelics, and subsequently joined the faculty. Dr. Garcia-Romeu has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and commentaries on psychopharmacology and mental health. His work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, Science, Nature, Psychology Today, People, Time, USA Today, CNN, ESPN, BBC, the Guardian, Gentlemen's Quarterly, the New Republic, Forbes, Scientific American, and the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, among others. His current research interests include clinical applications of psychedelics, real-world drug use patterns, diversity in science, and the role of spirituality in mental health. He is a founding member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research and the International Society for Research on Psychedelics. He serves on the Board of Directors for the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) and is an Associate Editor for the journal Psychedelic Medicine.