I am a doctoral student in cognitive systems neuroscience at the University of Oregon, advised by Dr. Margaret Sereno. My research focuses on visual perception, neuroaesthetics, complexity, self models, and altered states of consciousness.

I am especially interested in how perception becomes meaningful experience: how visual structure, affect, prior belief, and context interact to make art, nature, and psychedelic states feel salient or transformative. I approach these questions through cognitive neuroscience, psychology, active inference, and computational accounts of perception.

I am also a Fellow of the Active Inference Institute, where I contribute to interdisciplinary conversations in theoretical neuroscience. Previously, I worked as a clinical research coordinator in the CHAOS Lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz, managing clinical trials on substance use and cognitive impairment, with a focus on cannabis and psychedelics.