Anya is interested in nature conservation, ethnobotany, neuroscience and psychiatry, interweaving these diverse paths through psychedelic science. Deep love for nature motivated Anya to study biology at the University of Edinburgh, while a quest to understand altered states of consciousness prompted her to complete PhD in psychiatry at Cambridge. Anya worked at the forefront of psychedelic science, starting in 2015 as a science officer for the Beckley Foundation. Anya is a research scientist working at Beckley Psytech in collaboration with King’s college London, and a member of the Council for Protection of the Sacred Plants and researcher at Chacruna Institute.