At the interception of light and biology.

My work lives where light meets life — building cells that have never existed, to capture light in ways evolution never tried.

I'm a doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of Chemistry, reimagining photosynthesis from first principles: synthetic compartments engineered to intercept light and drive new-to-nature chemistry.

Before Cambridge I trained across four labs and three continents — nanobody screening at Harvard, protein nanopore engineering at Oxford, photoenzymes at Manchester, and cell-free synthetic biology at Tsinghua — and increasingly at the frontier of machine learning for biology, fine-tuning protein language models to understand and design fluorescent proteins.

Across all of it I'm chasing the same thing: the elegant translation of light into life.