Magaly Tornay is a Zurich-based historian currently writing a PhD on the history of psychoactive drugs and personhood since the 1950s. She has been a research fellow at the Max-Plack-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in London and at Oxford Brookes University. Former research include work on 'past futures': on science fiction as well as on future studies/futurology at their hightime in the 60s/70s.