Filips Peisahovics
Strategic Consultant in
Neuroscience and Behaviour
Consulting Approach
With an interdisciplinary science-driven approach, I focus on sustainable long-term solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs.
I am committed to providing sustainable, personalised, and long-term solutions. My approach begins with a thorough assessment or discovery session to understand each client’s unique needs. Depending on the situation, I either leverage my prior knowledge base or conduct additional research to design interdisciplinary and mainly science-based strategies. This ensures carefully planned and tailored solutions that align with long-term goals.
Instead of offering one-size-fits-all services, my services are tailored for each case. While this process may take more time and resources, it leads to lasting results that are better-suited to the defined priorities. Cooperation is essential to delivering high-quality outcomes.
My work is rooted in ethical principles, and I ensure that the solutions I provide will not applied in ways that could lead to exploitation, manipulation, or other unethical practices. I am open to offering concessions to underprivileged individuals or humanistic organisations.
Professional Experience
I have working experience spanning multiple sectors, including mental healthcare, biotech, and biometrics, where I have led research and innovation projects. As a co-founder of two ventures, I have hands-on experience in business strategy, market analysis, and developing versatile solutions. For example, I have helped identify a multi-billion-dollar market opportunity in the UAE healthcare sector and contributed to the design of different data-collecting devices for biometric tracking.
Biography
My journey from pirates to neuroscience reflects an evolving curiosity about what shapes our minds and behaviours.
I grew up in a pine forest by the Baltic Sea in Latvia, where the winters were as brutal as they were beautiful. Coming from a multi-national family of Ashkenazi, Russians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Bulgarians, and Germans, I was exposed to diverse perspectives from an early age.
As a child, I loved films about pirates and sea explorers, but rather than exploring the oceans or outer space, I became captivated by exploring the human. I was curious about what made certain people exceptional—whether athletes, scientific geniuses, or dictators—and why people reacted so differently to the same experiences, like rain or skyscrapers.
This curiosity led to me to explore human behaviour and disentangle the complexities of our minds.
Academic Foundations
From biochemistry and neuroscience research to business strategy, my academic journey creates a foundation for translating rigorous scientific insights into real-world strategies.
I earned a BSc in Biochemistry with Genetics from Lancaster University, where I studied areas such as molecular biology, cellular signalling, and biotechnology. My research on SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus, conducted under Prof Muhammad Munir, identified six amino acids that could serve as universal treatment targets and was published in the European Journal of Cell Biology—a rare achievement for an undergraduate.
During my placement year, my interest in the human mind strengthened, leading me to pursue an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at King’s College London, where I studied neurodevelopment, perception, memory, executive functions, and neuroimaging techniques. My thesis explored spatial cognition in epilepsy patients, and through this work, I gained advanced skills in cognitive research, data analysis, and EEG-based brain electrophysiology.
To translate my scientific knowledge into practical strategies, I completed the Business Strategy for Managers course at Imperial College London and the Foundations of Finance course by Cambridge University.
Independent Study
Exploring human behaviour in complement to science, I studied philosophical teaching, distant cultures, and experimented with my own mind to expand the knowledge by practice.
Complimenting my formal education, I have been exploring the workings of the mind through personal experimentation and philosophical study. I have been enriched by the thought of by both Eastern and Western philosophies, from reading thinkers like Schopenhauer or Jung, to studying spiritual texts like the Bhagavad Gītā or Yoga Sutras.
These perspectives, combined with my exposure to diverse cultures—from Chinese and Korean to Kazakh and Arabic—have enriched my understanding of the mind’s universality and its cultural variability.
I have experimented with the limits of my body and mind, developing ambidexterity, practising cognitive training, testing different sleep schedules, and undergoing sensory isolation. Through these and other experiments, I have gained insights into how our behaviour can be remodelled and adapted.
By applying my academic knowledge to my personal experience, I have enhanced my understanding of how we can improve our mental well-being and cognitive performance.