Board member · Advisor · Speaker

Sarit “Shashkes” Hashkes

Cognitive neuroscientist and repeat founder. I serve on boards and advise companies and investors across pharmaceuticals & psychedelics, sustainability, embodiment, and immersive technology — bringing a holistic, science-grounded approach that reconnects our bodies with each other and with nature.

Work with me See my roles

Sarit Hashkes lit in violet light beside a glowing psychedelic glass sculpture

How I can help

I’m open to board seats, advisory roles, investor collaborations, and speaking engagements.

Board & Advisory

Board seats and strategic advisory for companies at the frontier of neuroscience, pharma, psychedelics, sustainability, and immersive technology.

Investors

Helping investors source, evaluate, and diligence opportunities across psychedelics, biotech, climate, and XR — with a scientist's eye and an operator's judgment.

Speaking & Lectures

Keynotes and lectures on psychedelic neuroscience, embodiment, immersive tech, plurality, and climate adaptation — for conferences, companies, and universities.

Consulting & Coaching

1:1 and organizational sessions on psychedelics, VR, and plurality. I give away one free session a week to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and low-income folks.

About

I’m a cognitive neuroscientist (MSc, Radboud University Nijmegen) and a repeat founder. My academic work explored the brain through the predictive-coding framework — including a first-of-its-kind 2017 paper on how classical psychedelics reshape perception and consciousness.

Since then I’ve worked at the intersection of neuroscience, pharmaceuticals, sustainability, and immersive technology: founding and exiting companies, serving on boards, advising founders and investors, and staying close to the science. I care deeply about supporting women, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC people building toward measurable climate and health impact.

Alongside the work, I’m a climber and contact-improv dancer, a second-degree black belt in Karate, and openly part of a plural system.

Focus areas

My specialty

Neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscientist (MSc, Radboud University). I published the first academic paper (2017) explaining the effects of classical psychedelics on the brain within the predictive-coding framework.

Drug development · Strategy

Pharmaceuticals & Psychedelics

Board, advisory, and operating experience across natural and synthetic psychedelics — from the science of psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, and ketamine to legality and the business landscape.

Adaptation · Food resilience

Sustainability & Climate

Building tools and community for climate adaptation and sustainable food systems, and co-creating an off-grid eco community and makerspace in Bernal, Mexico.

VR / AR · Movement

Embodiment & Immersive Tech

I've built VR/AR applications and embodied hardware that reconnect us with our bodies, our communities, and our environment through movement and sensing.

Lived & lectured

Plurality

I'm openly part of a plural system with more than a decade of lived experience, and I lecture on the neuroscience and practice of plurality.

Sex tech · Immersive

Sex-Positive Tech & Education

A sex-positive founder and educator. Through Xtrasexy Reality I use immersive technology for sex education, grounded in the neuroscience of sexuality and enthusiastic consent.

Roles & ventures

Filament Health

President & Board Member

President and board member of a clinical-stage, exclusively natural psychedelic drug-development company.

Pharmaceuticals · Psychedelics

Rhelion

Senior Strategic Advisor

Advising on strategy at the intersection of psychedelic science and commercialization.

Psychedelics · Strategy

Zero Animal Biotech

Founder

A biotech focused on animal-free pharmaceutical ingredients — lactose free, pork-free magnesium stearate, and no animal-derived ingredients.

Biotech · Animal-free

Momentum Bernal

Co-Founder

An off-grid eco community and makerspace in Bernal, Querétaro where technology and sustainability meet — non-animal proteins, sustainable materials, eco textiles, and renewable energy.

Sustainability · Community

Xtrasexy Reality

Co-Founder

Sex education through immersive technology — because a holistic approach to health has to include our sexual wellbeing.

Sex tech · Immersive education

Radix Motion

Founder — exited

Combined neuroscience and immersive technology to strengthen the connection between brain and body through movement.

Neurotech · Movement · XR

Speaking & lectures

I speak and lecture on psychedelic neuroscience, embodiment, immersive technology, plurality, and climate — at conferences, companies, and universities.

Featured lecture · ICPR

Perception is in the details: what do psychedelics really do to the brain?

My ICPR talk presenting a predictive-coding account of the psychedelic phenomenon — how classical psychedelics reshape perception, from heightened sensory detail to ego death.

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