Hector Taylor
President / PhD Candidate
About Hector
Hector is a PhD candidate at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, researching how psychedelics and immersive virtual reality may reshape embodiment and body perception in chronic pain.
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President / PhD Candidate
Hector is a PhD candidate at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, researching how psychedelics and immersive virtual reality may reshape embodiment and body perception in chronic pain.
Board Member / PhD Candidate
Charlotte is a PhD candidate at the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) and Zurich (PUK), evaluating the impact of controlled self-experience with psychedelics in therapist training.
Board Member / MSc Student
Greta is a master’s student in Neurosciences at ETH, interested in the intersection between brain function, psychology, pharmacology and medical technology.
Board Member / NSC MSc Student
Samuel is a Master's student at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, a joint institute of ETH Zürich and the University of Zürich. He is interested in combining computational modelling of human behavior with brain imaging to address how psychedelics modulate hierarchical inference, cognitive flexibility, and belief updating at the algorithmic level, and how the ensuing computations are implemented in brain networks.
Board Member / Neuroscientist
Marine is a neuroscientist with a PhD in cognitive and affective neuroscience, whose doctoral research examined how the brain processes emotion in the human voice; she now explores sound's role in altered states of consciousness.
Board Member / Research Engineer
Lisa Thürler is a brain sciences graduate from ETH Zürich and UZH who works at IDUN Technologies and brings her interest in EEG and clinical research to PROZ, helping spark curiosity and learning about psychedelics.
Integration Circle Coordinator / MSc Student
Jon is a master’s student in Psychology at the University of Zurich, participating in the OPEN Foundation’s ADEPT online training programme for psychedelic therapy and leading the PROZ integration circle since the end of 2024.
Board Member / PhD Candidate
Aline is a PhD candidate investigating the clinical development of psychedelic-assisted therapies and the mechanisms of therapeutic change across diagnoses, drawing on a background in neuroscience, art therapy and medtech.
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