My Story

The Journey Unfolds

I studied Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, completing my diploma thesis at the renowned Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California in 2007. This was followed by a PhD position at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany.

During this time, alongside my scientific work (see publications), I felt a growing pull toward creativity. With two colleagues, I co-founded ArtJams, an interdisciplinary art collective — my first step outside the purely academic world. Yet it took another year, and a position in the pharmaceutical industry, before I realised I needed to let go entirely.

In 2014, I left everything behind to travel the world. Inspired by my parents — my German father, a nature-loving adventurer, and my Filipino mother, a banker with deep resilience — I carried both academic rigour and a free-spirited drive for exploration. Never feeling fully at home in either culture, I was propelled by a deep longing for freedom.

That longing led me to become a kitesurf instructor and yoga teacher, living and teaching across Greece, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, and beyond. On this journey, I met Colin Power, a maverick thinker whose genius in geometry and systems thinking resonated deeply with my own quest. Through our collaboration — where scientific logic aligned with spiritual traditions — I was drawn into a decade-long exploration of sacred geometry, consciousness, and systemic innovation, uncovering hidden patterns with the potential to transform how we understand reality and build humanity's future.