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Research Fellow and Team Leader

University of Glasgow

Leading a multidisciplinary team at the University of Glasgow developing autonomous chemistry platforms and assembly-theory-based methods for quantifying directed chemical exploration in prebiological systems.

• Leading and managing a team of 9 researchers and graduate students, setting scientific direction and delivery milestones
• Developing assembly-theory-derived metrics (including exploration ratio and ensemble assembly) for detecting directed chemical exploration
• Designing open-ended peptide polymerization workflows (wet-dry cycling, CDI coupling, enzymatic catalysis) for origins-of-life studies
• Integrating LLM-driven planning and literature extraction into automated laboratory workflows (ACRA platform)
• Designing and building robotic chemistry hardware and control stacks (CAD, Arduino/ESP32 firmware, Python orchestration)
• Building closed-loop systems combining reaction execution, automated sampling, low-field NMR, and iterative decision logic
• Secured major research funding, including a $1.25M Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant

Postdoctoral Researcher

ETH Zurich

Developed peptide-based supramolecular and porous materials, supervised MSc researchers, and contributed to project design and execution.

• Synthesising modified amino acids and peptides using SSPS
• Fabricating large supramolecular assemblies and confirming structure with TEM
• Designing bio-compatible porous peptide-based metal-organic frameworks
• Supervising master students and devising research objectives

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Oxford

Developed original MATLAB workflows for ring-current analysis from experimental NMR data and combined computational and experimental methods to study aromaticity in macrocycles.

• Conceiving and developing original MATLAB software for predicting ring currents
• Parsing NMR data from literature and interpreting using custom software
• Computationally (DFT) and experimentally (NMR) studying aromaticity and ring-currents

Research Technician

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences

Synthesized and characterized azonia-helicene compounds for bioactive screening and advanced chiroptical/crystallographic characterization workflows.

• Synthesizing library of over 200 novel azonia-helicenes
• Full characterization as potential drug candidates for telomerase activity
• Screening for racemic conglomerate crystals by detecting second-harmonic generation and XRD
• Organic compound synthesis for biological testing

PhD

University of Oxford

Physical Organic Chemistry

• Graduate NMR course
• Graduate Mass Spectrometry course
• Communication Skills

Research Internship (Erasmus)

ETH Zurich

Organic Chemistry

• Advanced Methods and Strategies in Synthesis
• Organic Synthesis: Methods and Strategies
• Computer-Assisted Drug Design
• Functional Inorganics

MSc

University of Chemistry and Technology

Organic Chemistry

• Organic Synthesis
• Retrosynthesis
• Reaction Mechanisms
• Chemical Calculations
• Organic Chemistry of Selected Elements
• Coordination Chemistry
• Metal-Organic Chemistry
• Supramolecular Chemistry
• Physical-Organic Chemistry
• Organic Technology

BSc

University of Chemistry and Technology

Chemistry

• Mathematics
• Physics
• Chemical Engineering
• Physical Chemistry
• Analytical Chemistry
• General and Inorganic Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry
• Biochemistry

Poster Prize

18th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-18), Sapporo, Japan

Poster Prize

Artemis, Octopus and ULTRA User Meeting, Oxford

Best Oral Contribution

13th Interdisciplinary Session of Young Biologist, Biochemists and Chemists