I never left science.
I grew beyond it.
I grew up in Dej, Romania, a place where the mountains felt closer than the city centre, and where the natural world was never separate from daily life. I carried that sensibility into more than a decade of formal science: a veterinary medicine diploma in Romania, followed by a doctorate in Veterinary Sciences with a focus on molecular biology at Ghent University in Belgium.
My research touched the edges of the invisible: protein expression, molecules and cells, RNA & DNA, STED microscopy, FLIM imaging, the fluorescence signatures of living cells. I published in the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, presented findings to international peers, and learned to speak the language of evidence with precision.
But alongside the lab work, something else was always present: a deep curiosity about what science couldn't yet measure. The felt sense of a body in balance. The intelligence of a forest. The way some knowledge only arrives when you slow down enough to receive it.
The turning point came not in a laboratory, but in grief. When I lost my kitten, a loss that is small by the world's measure but enormous by mine, I found myself facing a pain that no scientific training could solve. That pain became a doorway, one that led me to Mindvalley University 2025, to kundalini energy, and into a deep dive into the spiritual field I had always quietly sensed but never fully entered.
What I found, and what I now bring to stages, retreats, and workshops, is that these worlds are not opposites. Rigour and wonder live in the same body. But data and intuition speak in different languages. And you need to know how to listen.
I am based in Ghent, Belgium, and I work internationally as a speaker, creative guide, and mindful living facilitator. My audiences range from scientific communities and corporate teams to spiritual retreats and personal growth communities like Mindvalley.