Sebastian Penz is currently doing his master's degree at the University of Basel. In his bachelor thesis he looked at  challenging psychedelic experiences and differences in two personality traits regarding  the integration and constructive processing of the experience. In the context of his master's thesis he is investigating personal vulnerabilties in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. For this he is involved in a research project on ayahuasca compounds at the Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich.