Kathryn (Kati) Devaney is a neuroscientist and dedicated meditation practitioner.

With more than 20 years of meditation experience, Kati has practiced on retreats across the US, Europe, and India. She has also collected behavioral and neuroimaging data from meditators across several retreats, events, and laboratories. Supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, she earned her PhD in 2018, using fMRI to examine attention and prediction updating in experienced Vipassana meditators.

After completing her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Kati moved to Berkeley CA to start The Berkeley Alembic Foundation with Michael Taft & Erik Davis.

Kati is currently the Executive Director of The Alembic, a science advisor at Jhourney.io, and a researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

Previously, she co-founded the SF Dharma Collective and served as its board president, designed and taught her course ‘Meditation and the Brain’ at Stanford, taught Cognitive Psychology at Boston University, and has given lectures at MIT, Harvard University, IIT Delhi, among others.

Kati has been quoted discussing the neuroscience of meditation in The Atlantic, National Georgraphic, TIME Magazine, and Women’s Health.

Kati is currently accepting new meditation students - you can inquire via the contact form.