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I study how a body comes to feel like oneself — and how that feeling can shift, break, or be placed elsewhere. My work asks how sensations, movements, perspectives and meanings become self-attributed, and how the boundaries between self, other and world are reframed.

My most personal line of research explores disembodiment and self-externalization: moments in which aspects of oneself become distant, doubled, strange, shared, or encountered as another. I am interested in what these shifts make possible for self-reflection, compassion and relations with others.

I approach these questions through experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sound, performance, immersive media, co-design and artistic research. I use technology not for optimization, but to stage encounters with one’s own body, with other people, and with the fragile forms through which we recognize ourselves.

Here I gather my primary lines of research and a few exemplar works:

My work also unfolds through teaching, workshops, public experiments and collective situations where research becomes shared experience.

Across BeAnotherLab, individually and through other collaborations, I have worked between universities, museums, cultural institutions and social settings shaped by identity-based conflict, exploring research as a space for encounter.