About

I came to engineering through science. I was interested in computers from childhood — teaching myself Visual Basic and Delphi to write games as a teenager — and went on to study biology, completing a PhD focused on zebrafish biology.

During my research career I found myself increasingly drawn to the engineering around the experiments. I learned electronics, mechanical design and 3D printing through my own projects, and by building the equipment the work needed: a modern gel documentation system, an optical projection tomography microscope. Much of what I know now came from making those instruments work.

That experience led to a full-time engineering role at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, designing and building custom instruments for researchers, and then to Micrographia Bio, developing an automated microscopy platform for spatial proteomics. Engineering is now my principal professional focus.

I enjoy solving practical problems and working across the boundaries between mechanics, electronics and software. My particular interest is in robotics, mechatronics and physical systems that have a useful, real-world impact.