As a Guest Researcher, I am currently involved in the Viscereality Project, which innovatively merges breathwork with virtual reality to induce altered states of consciousness. Central to the project is a bio-responsive VR application that adjusts dynamically to the user's breathing patterns. This method seeks to integrate interoception with exteroception by aligning immersive virtual environments with specific breathing techniques, such as circular breathing and hyperventilation. Our aim is to explore how the interaction between bodily sensations and responsive virtual settings can impact consciousness, offering potential insights and therapeutic applications in mental health.

ALIUS is an international and interdisciplinary research group dedicated to the investigation of all aspects of consciousness, with a specific focus on non-ordinary or understudied conscious states traditionally classified as altered states of consciousness.ALIUS puts a particular stress on the need for a naturalistic approach to all aspects of consciousness, including states and experiences which have long been unduly associated to parapsychology and pseudoscientific hypotheses.To this end, it fosters a unique interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers, involving neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers of mind, psychiatrists and anthropologists, towards the development of a systematic and scientific model of consciousness supported by both theoretical work and experimental studies. This collaboration may take the form of joint articles, blog posts, editorial work on special issues, thematic workshops and international conferences.

Research Assistant at the Religion Cognition & Behavior Lab, University of AmsterdamSupervisor: Prof. Michiel van ElkManuscript in preparation:• The Placebo effect and Expectations about Microdosing. Most studies implement the placebo controls in a binary manner, without controlling for the role of expectations. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of placebo and expectations in a more fine-grained manner, by investigating the effect of expectation violation and fulfillment with regard to using psilocybin or placebos.

As a lab manager at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, my main responsibilities entail:• Maintenance of lab equipment and testing space and participant recruitment.• Conducting research experiments on attention, memory, gaze control via computer-based behavioral assessment and eye-tracking.• Teaching Assistance in graduate and undergraduate courses, such as 'Cognition and Emotion' and 'Cognitive Neuroscience'. with data analysis and scientific writing.• Grade evaluations (essays, exams)

Co-organized the Interdisciplinary Conference for Psychedelic Research as part of the program management team (https://icpr2020.net/icpr-team/). Organized an online webinar and promoted interactions between senior members of the scientific community and early careers researchersMy responsibilities included the selection of keynote speakers, the evaluation of abstract submissions, and the assembly of the program and panel discussions.Provided consultation on issues related to academic partnerships, promotion, and marketing strategies. Helped produce academic content via our conference blog in order to promote scientific themes to a wider audience (https://icpr2020.net/the-biggest-challenges-for-psychedelic-science-today/)

As a board member of the Amsterdam Psychedelic Research Association, I helped our student network grow into a professional association dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and resources concerning the research of psychedelics and their altered state of consciousness. As a board member, my primary contribution was the organization lectures, journal clubs, networking socials, and symposia. I programmed a https://twitter.com/APRA_bot to post the latest psychedelic research literature from Pubmed, peer-reviewed journals, and the Open Science preprint servers.

I analyzed account applications for the online bank N26 and filed reports for suspected fraudulence, such as identity theft, forgery, or money-laundering.

Amsterdam Emotion Regulation LabSupervisor: Dalya Samur (Ph.D. ) & Prof. Dr. Sander L. KooleProject: An investigation of frontal asymmetry using functional near-infrared spectroscopy: Revisiting the effects of state anger.Responsibilities: Conceptualizing research design. Designing vignettes/short-stories for the purposes of creating a reliable emotion-induction method. Running pilot study to validate our method. Recruiting participants and administering fNIRS to measure brain activity related to anger.Training: Attendance at an fNIRS training workshop hosted by the NIRxMedizintechnik GmbH in Berlin.

Supervisor: Dr. Mariana Gil, Dr. Rolf Sprengel, & Prof. Dr. Hannah MonyerResponsibilities:• Running behavioral experiments using the MorrisWater Maze, to test rodents' memory, learning, and spatial orientation.• Analyzing the histological assays of the rodents' brain slices to assess the efficacy of knocking out their NMDA (learning) receptors.

Administrative Assistant at the Department of "Clinical Pediatric Oncology" at Hopp Children's Cancer Center, University Clinic of HeidelbergSupervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Kulozik, PhDResponsibilities: Administrative support for doctors and the secretary, and the maintenance of patient care records within an electronic database.