Dr. Petros Petridis is in his final year as a Psychiatry resident on the Research Track at NYU, where he has protected time for research at the Center for Psychedelic Medicine. He is interested in using neuroimaging and other advanced techniques to study the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effects of psychedelic compounds in a variety of psychiatric conditions. He earned an MS in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, where his research was supported by the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. He then earned his MD degree from Columbia University, where he conducted research using structural and functional MRI that laid the groundwork for his current studies at the Center for Psychedelic Medicine.