Rebecca Böhme

Dr. Rebecca Böhme is an Associate Professor at the Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience in Linköping, Sweden, where she studies the sense of self. Her research employs behavioral measures, functional brain imaging, and psychedelic interventions to understand how we establish a bodily self, how we connect with each other, and what happens to the self in psychiatric conditions. Rebecca studied biology and neuroscience at the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck research school in Tübingen. For her PhD at the psychiatry department of Charité Berlin, she received the For Women in Science prize. Her research is funded by grants from the European Research Council and Vetenskapsrådet.