Meet the Team

Founder & Executive Director

Tadeusz is dedicated to advancing brain health and has over 15 years of experience collaborating with European Union institutions. He has led policy and advocacy initiatives for organizations such as the European Brain Council and the European Federation of Neurological Associations.
He firmly believes in the power of partnerships and has been instrumental in establishing various alliances at both national and international levels.
His work extends beyond Europe, having collaborated with global organizations like the WHO. Tadeusz has played a key role in the formation of the OneNeurology global partnership and contributed to the WHO's global action plan on neurological conditions.
As the Founder and Executive Director of the Psychedelic Access and Research European Alliance (PAREA), Tadeusz is dedicated to driving systemic change in Europe’s healthcare system. He is passionate about addressing the urgent, unmet needs in mental health by investigating the therapeutic potential of psychedelics.
In the last several years, he has co-authored publications on brain health in journals like the Lancet Neurology, Lancet Global Health and Nature Reviews Neurology.

Communications Officer

Guided by curiosity and a search for meaning, Nico is passionate about health, wellbeing, and community building. While pursuing her BA in Economics and Global and International Studies at Bard College, NY, she first encountered the transformative potential of psychedelics to reshape how we understand and approach mental health.
Driven by a desire to help cultivate supportive containers for integration, Nico has completed training with Chacruna, ICEERS, BTTY, Fluence, Numinus, and Psychedelic Support. Her growing awareness that individual wellbeing cannot thrive in systems that pathologize human experience and foster disconnection led her to pursue a Master’s in Medical Anthropology and Global Health.
Her core interests in the psychedelic field lie at the intersection of ethics, safety, and access. Nico views storytelling as a vital tool for collective sense-making, especially in response to the metacrisis shaping today’s global health challenges.
Now living at Honeydew, an eco-community in northern Italy, she explores what healing through community looks like in practice, while supporting the missions of PAREA and Chacruna through her work in communications, fundraising, and event production.

Project Officer

A neuroscientist by training, Francisca is deeply passionate about people, the brain and health. In her interdisciplinary academic path, including a dual MSc in Brain and Mind Sciences from University College London (UCL) and Sorbonne Université and a BSc from the Maastricht Science Programme, she delved into various fields of interest, such as molecular biology, neuropsychopharmacology and clinical neurology and neuropsychiatry, and developed a keen appreciation for effective science communication.
Her desire to contribute to the translation of science into better care for those in need initially led to her involvement in psychedelics-related initiatives at the European Medicines Agency (EMA), notably the EMA Multi-Stakeholder Workshop on Psychedelics held in April 2024.
She could describe her personal life as a balancing act between wholesome moments of connection (with others and herself) and healthy doses of escapism (she is known to never not be reading a book – most often fiction).

Web & Design Manager

Designer, strategist and quiet chaos merchant on an infinite quest to promote sustainable and aligned self-employment.
Believer in the unique and infinite potential of every single mind on this planet and the importance of self-determination for true creative freedom. Having worked as a freelance web & graphic designer for 20 years, Orla has been involved with every side of building a business from idea, design, development, startup funding, business-modeling to sales. However, as she grew her freelance business into a small agency, she found herself becoming repeatedly burnt out so she changed to a more aligned, fastpaced and exciting co-creation and mentorship model supporting startups and small business owners collaboratively.
Orla also runs Thriving Divergent, an Adult ADHD skills training hub, loves abstract acrylic painting, always learning something new and trying to find the time to write consistently.