Nathalie Rieser studied Psychology (focus: Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience) at the University of Zurich. For her Master's Thesis, she conducted an fMRI-study investigating the effect of n-Acetylcysteine in cocaine users. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant in Cognitive Psychology (Zurich), Comparative Linguistics using EEG (Zurich), and at the Institute of Addiction Research (Amsterdam, NL). Nathalie is currently working on the effects of psychedelics in alcohol dependent patients and healthy controls.