Psychologist by training and nature and Doctor of Pharmacology by choice. Since mid-1990s he’s been doing research on drugs and hallucinogenic plants and becoming, thanks to and along with various colleagues, one of the most prolific authors of scientific publications about ayahuasca and ibogaine. He spends most of the time as a scientist for the ICEERS Foundation for pay, devoting the rest of his professional activity to other rewarding enterprises, like his participation in the Mandragora Foundation.