Previous Academic Achievements

• Eli Lily award for Academic Excellence in Biotechnology 2021 for my MSc Biotechnology (2020-2021) 
• Quercus University Academic Scholarship for BSc Nutritional Sciences 2016-2019
• Science, Engineering & Food Science (SEFS) college scholarship for 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. 

Career

After completing MSc Biotechnology I worked as a Research Associate with EIRNA Bio (2021-2024), a company at the forefront of translatomics, specialising in ribosome profiling, but also providing a range of translatomics services. My contributions to the company’s R&D team included the development of a protocol for plant ribosome profiling which was successfully applied to various plant species, including Glycine max, Arabidopsis thaliana, and (for the first time) Lolium perenne.

I moved to Finland on July 31st 2024 and began my PhD in the Regulation of Cyanobacteria Research Group in August 2024.