Sidsel Høgsgaard Andersen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Copenhagen’s department of Psychology and Neurobiology Research Unit (NRU), Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet. Since completing her Master of Science in Psychology in 2022, she has been affiliated with the NRU where she has been involved in projects at the intersection between psychology and neurobiology. She has worked as a research assistant at the Maternal Mental Health project, investigating preventive strategies in relation to women’s reproductive health. Alongside, she assisted the unit’s psychedelic research, involving project conceptualization and preparation for data collection, analysis, and psychological support during psychedelic sessions.
With her Ph.D. project Sidsel aims to contribute to our knowledge about set and setting in psychedelic research, specifically investigating the role of music in psilocybin assisted psychotherapy using both qualitative and quantitative methodology. Under the supervision of Associate Professor Dea Siggaard Stenbæk, she is facilitating psychological support with healthy volunteers as well as patients suffering from Alcohol Use Disorder.