Alexander Lebedev is a psychiatrist and scientist with over 15 years of experience in biomedicine and big data analytics. He holds an MD from the Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Bergen. He is currently working as an assistant professor at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studying how people form beliefs and how global societal events and psychiatric conditions influence these processes.

Alexander published dozens of peer-reviewed articles on machine learning applied to biomedical data, brain imaging and psychopharmacology. As a part of his work in academia, he also coordinated several research trials, including Sweden’s first clinical trial investigating psilocybin's potential to treat depression. Alexander provides consulting services for a range of sectors, including psychedelic medical startups, social media analytics and finance, defining his ultimate goal “as researching and developing solutions that foster personal and societal resilience”.