I am a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in the department of Psychiatry. My work is focused on interdisciplinary research of consciousness and experience across wake-sleep states. I am currently working on projects tackling the links between social cognition, sleep and meditation at Ian Gold‘s Neurophilosophy Lab (Culture, Mind and Brain research group).

I received an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Montreal in Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy (advisors: Tore Nielsen, Sha Xin Wei). I have been working in the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory at the Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine since 2004, where I have participated in research on sleep, dreaming, sleep paralysis, memory consolidation, nightmares, meditation and other consciousness phenomena. Since 2007 I have been collaborating with Concordia University’s Topological Media Lab. I am also a member of the coordinating committee of the Initiative for a Synthesis in Studies of Awareness and an affiliated Research Scientist at a new Manhattan-based interdisciplinary initiative, YHouse.