Imperial College London
PhD, Materials Research
Oct 2017 –– Aug 2022
Imperial College London
MEng (Hons), Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Sep 2013 –– Jun 2017
nanograb
CEO & Co-founder
Jan 2021 — present
- CEO - Pre-incorporation spin-out with PhD supervisor
- Building full stack web app for designing DNA probes, using ReactJS, Flask (Python), MongoDB, Docker and implementing physics model in Python and C++; Genomics tools: samtools, IGV.js
- Business plan including IP, development strategy, costing plan, market analysis, competitive environment analysis
Water Daily
Developer
Dec 2020 — May 2021
- Freelance developer and business consultant; built e-commerce website using Webflow with tutorials for client; general advisory role; order fulfilment; general maintenance of CMS and product system
FabricNano
Theoretical Scientist
Sep 2019 — Apr 2020
- First software hire in seed level company working as sole full-time developer on journey to series A
- Theoretical scientist intern – design and simulations of DNA origami
- Built internal GUI app for lab users to analyse data extracted from experimental equipment
Imperial College London
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Jan 2018 — Jun 2021
- 1st year Undergraduate laboratories (Rheology and Polymer Crystallisation)
- Masters’ Project Supervision (4th Year Undergraduate and Postgraduate Masters)
- Graduate School – Introduction to LATEX and LATEX for Writing Theses (PhD students)
- 1st & 2nd year Python programming course design (Introduction to Python and Machine Learning)
- UROP project supervision (4th Year Undergradute)
IRIS. Drone Technologies
Co-founder
Jan 2016 — Jan 2018
- Co-founder of start-up specialising in the applications of drones in developing markets for the transport of healthcare materials to remote locations
- Acting as Managing Director/CTO for a team of seven spread across the UK and Spain
Academic Experience
PhD Thesis – In silico modelling of polymer-based drug delivery systems
Supervisors: Dr. Stefano Angioletti-Uberti & Dr. Theoni Georgiou
- Conducted Langevin Dynamics at physiological conditions using LAMMPS software package
- Using ReaDDy for interparticular reaction diffusion (iPRD) simulations, and oxDNA for realistic generation of polymer networks via vitrimer swap-driven dynamics
- Developed coarse-grained bead-spring polyelectrolyte models for star polymers and genetic material
- Investigated the free energy of binding and complex structure using steered molecular dynamics
- Extensive use of Python data analysis tools (pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib)
- Developer of 3 python software packages: starpolymers, hydrogels, softnanotools
Research Exchange – Universidad de Malaga
Supervisor: Professor Rafael Roa
- Created an analytical model for enzymatic degradation of hydrogel nanoparticles
- Solved differential equations inspired by the Smoluchowski solution to diffusion-influenced reactions
- Evaluated models using standard Python packages, compared to real data from experimental work
Masters’ Project – High resolution 3D-printing of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering
Supervisor: Dr. Iain Dunlop
- Explored the use of two-photon polymerisation (2PP) as a technique for the additive manufacture of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEG-DA)
- Used rheology to quantitatively analyse the mechanical properties of produced hydrogels
- 3D printed micron-scale structures using a NanoScribe® Photonic 3D printer
Skills, Interests and Achievements
- EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Scholarship at Imperial College London
- Henry Royce Scholarship for Impulse 2021 at the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge (nanograb prev. xSense)
- Finalist of Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Enterprise Award 2021 & 2022 (nanograb prev. xSense)
- Thomas Young Centre — Junior Research Fellowship Award
- Nominee for Student Academic Choice Awards Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year 2018 & 2019
- CECAM MolSim 2018 — Amsterdam Workshop attendant
- Winner of Social Enterprise Fund — Imperial College Union March 2016 (IRIS. Drone Technologies)
- Speaker at A.C.T. Now launch event — Imperial College Union October 2016 (IRIS. Drone Technologies)
- Speaker at Do It Now Now — Startups for Africa August 2016, February 2017 (IRIS. Drone Technologies)
- Imperial College Union — Skills Development Programme, ILM Level 5: Management of Volunteers
- Confident with quantitative analysis, critical assessment of literature, rapid skills development, public speaking, assertive leadership, working individually or as part of a large team, technical guidance, and personal support
- IT Skills: Python (advanced); MS Office (advanced); LATEX (advanced); BASH (intermediate); NodeJS (intermediate); HTML/CSS/JS (intermediate); MATLAB (intermediate); C++ (intermediate); React (intermediate); MongoDB/NoSQL (basic); Rust (basic); Docker (basic); Kubernetes (basic); Go (basic)
- Languages: English (native), Spanish (basic), French (basic), Bengali (basic)