Marcela Ohlgart holds a B.Sc. in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience from the University of California, Davis, and an M.Sc. in Health and Social Psychology from Maastricht University. During her undergraduate studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Social Environment and Stress Lab at UC Davis, where she contributed to meta-analytic work on mental health disparities and the relationship between parenting and child autonomic nervous system activity. Her Master's research and thesis focused on understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying fear-based learning in patients with anorexia nervosa. Marcela recently began her PhD at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, where her research investigates the mechanisms behind psychedelic-related health behavior change, with a particular focus on Self-Determination Theory as an explanatory framework.