I am a neuroscientist at Monash University’s Comp Nuero Lab within the Turner Institute. My work uses context-rich psychedelic neuroimaging to map how brain networks reorganise with changing conditions and psilocybin. We combine fMRI and EEG with effective connectivity and machine-learning methods to decode brain state and relate subjective experience to cortical and subcortical dynamics.
I am also a systems theorist curious to explore life, the universe and everything, with intellectual roots grounded in psychology, philosophy and physics:
The boundaries we draw between self and other, mind and world, are the fossilised pathways of functional necessity. Neuroscience increasingly reveals that what we experience as external arises from a unified modelling process.
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Latest Projects
PsiConnect Study
- Australia’s first psychedelic imaging trial; psilocybin × connectivity × context.
- World’s largest by sample (N≈65): baseline + 19 mg psilocybin; MRI & EEG; longitudinal behaviour.
- Role: protocol design, implementation, participant guidance, and analysis.
- Status: complete; Flagship manuscript: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Keio University Psilocybin Trial
- Advisor on Japan’s first serotonergic psychedelic clinical trial for TRD.
- Evaluation of psilocybin safety and efficacy (10 mg & 25 mg).
- Role: curated therapeutic music; advisory input on mindset and contextual design.
- Status: implementation phase.
Psilocybin for Opioid Use Trial
- Wellcome Leap UA clinical therapy trial; comparator design (low vs high dose).
- Role: trial design and neuroimaging analysis.
- Status: planning and recruitment phase.
Addiction Neurocircuitry Targets
- Wellcome Leap UA machine-learning informed fMRI–TMS study for alcohol use.
- Translational focus on addiction neurocircuitry targets.
- Role: neuroimaging analysis.
- Status: implementation phase.
Psilocybin for Food Reward and Preference
- Imaging pilot study of food reward processing under psilocybin.
- Role: design and advisory.
- Status: design & recruitment.
Research value & scope
I build meaning into trial design, identify it in data, and bridge the connections between Brain, Mind and Mental Health.
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