My scientific work examines altered states, physiology, human adaptation, and transformation through empirical research. But scientific papers capture only part of what interests me. Many of the questions that shape my work begin elsewhere: in fieldwork, extreme environments, conversations, stories, and lived experience.
Field Notes is where I explore that wider territory. It is a space for questions and observations that sit within, around, and sometimes entirely beyond formal research, approached through science, phenomenology, storytelling, and lived experience. Some entries are conceptual, some observational, and some personal. They are not intended as scientific conclusions, but as another way of asking questions, noticing patterns, and exploring aspects of human experience that do not always lend themselves to empirical study. At the centre of it all is a question that has increasingly come to shape my work:
What changes us, and what makes change last?