Mette Leonard Høeg is a researcher and writer based between Oxford and Aarhus.

Her interest lies with texts, stories, meanings and ideas and with the sociocultural networks and historical contexts in which these are produced.

Her work and life unfold in three dimensions: In her academic work, she explores the synergies between the empirical neurosciences and the humanities with the purpose of establishing consciousness research as an interdisciplinary field with a strong ethical and existential dimension. In her critical-journalistic work, she focuses on the value of art and literature for individuals and collectives, and on fundamental existential issues and new ethical problems related to the age of the anthropocene, neurocentrism and the post- and transhuman future. The third central dimension consists in an ongoing personal phenomenological investigation of consciousness and experience, through meditation and other mind-altering methods.

Her approach to culture, literature and ethics is highly interdisciplinary, experimental and hermeneutically attuned. She views literature and narrative as a broad field of ideas connected to general trends and tendencies in society and culture—inextricably entangled with politics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and science. She is interested in literature as an entrance into reality, not as a distraction from it.

Currently holding research fellowships at the University of Oxford and Aarhus University, she also works as a literary and cultural critic and meditation guide.

Born and raised in Denmark and spending her first student years in Copenhagen, she has since lived, studied and worked in Berlin, London, Baja California, San Francisco, Melbourne and Oxford.