Trace Institute
Collaborations

Working partnerships

The Institute's program is built in conversation with scientists and institutes pursuing related questions. These are the active research collaborations we are highlighting now.

Portrait of Andrew Gallimore
Collaboration

Trace × Andrew Gallimore

Noonautics

An active collaboration with neurobiologist and pharmacologist Andrew Gallimore, whose work at Noonautics investigates the neuropharmacology of psychedelic states and the structure of altered conscious experience. The partnership joins Gallimore's empirical and theoretical work on N,N-DMT phenomenology to the Institute's scientific program on observer-first foundations.

A new paper from Donald Hoffman and Andrew Gallimore is forthcoming.

noonautics.org
Portrait of Michael Levin
Collaboration

Trace × Michael Levin

Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University

An ongoing exchange with Michael Levin, Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and a leading figure in developmental and synthetic biology. Levin's research on bioelectric fields, basal cognition, and the agentic behavior of cells at every scale opens a natural dialogue with the Institute's work on conscious agents and the foundations of physics.

drmichaellevin.org