Melissa Warner
Research Lead
Multidisciplinary researcher, educator, meditation teacher and contemplative therapist. Melissa is Programs and Innovation Lead at Karuna Mental Health, an integrative psychiatry clinic focusing on medicine-assisted therapies, and Director of Anam Cara Centre, where she co-developed the Certificate of Psychedelic and Contemplative Therapies (CPACT). As a Director of the Cyberdelic Nexus her research translates nature-based and contemplative practice into virtual reality with The University of Melbourne, the Intangible Realities Laboratory and Psychedelic Research in Science and Medicine (PRISM), where she is Secretary.
Michael Flood
Design Lead
Michael Flood is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, researcher and creative technologist. Founder and Creative Director of Create Wonder and a Director of Cyberdelic Nexus, he develops transformative experiences spanning virtual reality, interactive art and experimental design. With dual honours degrees in Industrial Design and Sustainable Systems Engineering, his practice integrates emerging technologies, procedural design and embodied interaction. Drawing on research collaborations with RMIT University and the University of Melbourne, his work explores the potential of immersive experiences to cultivate presence and deepen ecological connection.
Fyodor Krasniy
Technical Lead
World building for virtual reality and virtual productions.
Jose Montemayor Alba
Creative Coordinator
New media artist, immersive learning experience designer and XR developer exploring the synergy between immersive learning, storytelling and transformative gaming. Jose is CEO of the Cyberdelic Nexus, a global ecosystem and community exploring cyberdelic technologies, immersive experiences and transformative games that help people turn altered states into lasting traits. He is also a Research Assistant at the Intangible Realities Laboratory, working on Clear Light, a multi-session group VR program for people facing life-threatening illness, to be evaluated in a randomised controlled trial with palliative care clinicians.
A/Prof Carl H Smith
Immersive Media Advisor
Associate Professor of Media in the School of Arts & Creative Industries at the University of East London, and former Head of Research and Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre at Ravensbourne University London. His research explores the relationship between technology and the human condition: he is developing Hyperhumanism, which uses technology as a catalyst for our own innate human abilities. He is the founder and curator of the Museum of Consciousness, a touring exhibition of audio-based works designed to cultivate expansive states of consciousness. Carl is a Director of the Cyberdelic Nexus and has given over 300 lectures and keynotes in 40 countries.
