I hold a Bachelor (Hons) in Chemical Engineering, including a 3-month industrial placement, and an MRes in the same field. I earned my Ph.D. in organic and macromolecular chemistry from the University of Lille, France, with a thesis on flow chemistry, kinetics, thermodynamics, and organic synthesis.
Post-Ph.D., I worked as a postdoctoral and research fellow in leading labs worldwide, including Institut Curie (France), CCS and LMMP (Brazil), the Laboratory for Soft and Complex Matter Studies (Norway), and the Ding Lab (China). In 2017, I joined the University of Birmingham, UK, as a Research Fellow funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). There, I collaborated with Professor Ian Norton and Dr. Tom Mills on additive manufacturing of soft materials, working alongside the Universities of Birmingham, Nottingham, and Reading and industry partners.
From 2020 to 2021, I was part of the Energy Materials Group under Professor Emma Kendrick at Birmingham’s School of Metallurgy & Materials, applying artificial intelligence to energy storage. Until October 2022, I was a Research Fellow in Soft 3D Printing and Microfluidics at the School of Mathematics. I developed smart microfluidic devices from thermoresponsive polymers using soft 3D printing and Origami-inspired techniques. During this period, I collaborated closely with the Hydrogel Machines group as a scientific visitor.