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, Kati designed and taught her course ‘Meditation and the Brain’ at Stanford, taught Cognitive Psychology at Boston University, and has given invited lectures at MIT, Harvard University, IIT Delhi, and elsewhere.

Kati is authorized to teach meditation by Michael Taft and is currently accepting new students - you can inquire via the contact form.