AmbassadorEtzel Cardeña
- Thorsen Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
- Member of the Scientific Board of Bial Foundation
- Member of the Organising Committee of the "Behind and Beyond the Brain" Symposia
“I have been involved with the Bial Foundation in various capacities and for many years. The Foundation has had the courage to support scientific studies on psi (and psychophysiology), for which deserves our gratitude and admiration. In addition, the Foundation members are not only extremely competent but friendly and warm."
Etzel Cardeña was born and raised in Mexico, has advanced degrees from Canada and the US, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University in Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). His areas of research include alterations of consciousness and unusual or anomalous experiences (including psi phenomena), dissociative processes and acute posttraumatic reactions, the neurophenomenology of hypnosis and anomalous experiences, and the stream of consciousness during waking and altered states.
He has around 400 publications, some in top journals in psychology and related disciplines, and his work has been covered by various media including the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the BBC. Various professional organizations have awarded his empirical, theoretical, historical, and pedagogical contributions, and his research has been funded by organizations in the US, Sweden, and Portugal. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition. He has also worked professionally in theatre as director, actor, and playwright.