In two words

Meticulous polymath

In twenty seconds

PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying meta-awareness and pioneering research on psychedelic microdosing.
Co-Founder of the Canadian Centre for Psychedelic Science and the Psychedelic Studies Research Program.
Additional projects on attention, meditation, wisdom, and creativity. Strong focus on rigour and transparency.

In ninety seconds

My PhD research is developing tools to model the neural dynamics of meta-awareness: the moment that we realize we weren’t paying attention. Meta-awareness involves noticing that our behaviours are not aligned with our overall goals. For example, we may catch ourselves unintentionally mind-wandering even though our goal is to pay attention to the task at hand. My research involves neuroimaging (fMRI, fNIRS, EEG), physiological, behavioural, and self-report data.

Additionally, some of my research was among the earliest academic investigations on psychedelic microdosing and our research team performed the first Clinical Trial on psychedelic microdosing approved by Health Canada.

Refer to my CV for a concise summary of my background and publications (VPNs may break the link).
Feel free to reach out. I love to collaborate. I especially enjoy designing Xanatos gambit experiments.

My PhD Supervisor is Prof. Norman Farb in the Regulatory and Affective Dynamics Laboratory.
My PhD Committee includes Prof. Michael Inzlicht and Prof. Kei Fukuda.

A brief timeline of my personal universe

• 1988 Conceived, to the surprise of everyone involved
• 1995 Recruited to gifted/enrichment program
• 1999 Academic Excellence award
• 2005 Communications Technology award
• 2006 Begin Bachelor’s degree at University of Waterloo in Software Engineering
• 2008 Employed at Electronic Arts making video games (a childhood dream achieved)
• 2010 Change majors into Psychology; begin work in an EEG/ERP and eye-tracking lab
• 2012 Complete BA in Psychology with Computer Science minor
• 2013 First presentation at a scientific conference on stage at Visions Sciences Society
• 2014 Publish Bachelor’s thesis research in Neuroimage
• 2015 Begin Master’s degree at University of Toronto in Psychology
• 2016 Begin PhD studies at University of Toronto in Psychology
• 2017 Begin research on psychedlic microdosing
• 2019 Co-found Psychedelic Studies Research Program at the University of Toronto
• 2020 Co-found Canadian Centre for Psychedelic Science with Rotem Petranker

My Personal Life

Not that it’s anyone’s business, but here are a few things about me. I adore decadence.

• I love very dark chocolate (85% and above). Chocosol is my daily go-to. Sirene is a delight.
• I eat ethically sourced meat. Sanagain’s Meat Locker is my butcher of choice.
• I wear clothing made from natural fibres like cotton, silk, wool, and cashmere.
• I wear bespoke gloves made by Chester Jeffries, which has tragically terminated operations.
• I wear leather shoes and belts by Carmina. I love my tan penny loafers.
• I cut with beautiful knives from hacher&krain. My choice are the K-Sabatier Authentique 1834 Ltd.
• I don’t use social media. I use DuckDuckGo. I use ProtonVPN.

This Website

This site is powered by an old Hugo Minimal theme and made in R using the package blogdown.
This site is hosted and deployed with Netlify and the domain was purchased through GoDaddy.

This website design was inspired by Derek Sivers' website and the code was based on a previous version of Hause Lin’s website. Hause is a friend and colleague of mine who does great work and I personally recommend his hausekeep package of tools.