• Education

    2018 - 2021 Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Kent

    2014 - 2018 B.Sc. Biochemistry with Spanish for Science, Imperial College London

  • Research experience

    April 2022 - present
    Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Los Angeles
    Advisor: Prof. David Eisenberg

    December 2021 - April 2022
    Early career researcher - data analyst, UK Health Security Agency
    Thematic Assessment and Advanced Analytics within All Hazards Intelligence

    August 2018 - December 2021
    Ph.D. student, University of Kent
    Development of Biophysical and Chemical Methods for Investigations into thePolymorphic Nature of Amyloid Fibril Structures
    Advisors: Dr. Wei-Feng Xue, Dr. Christopher Serpell, Prof. Mick Tuite

    January 2018 - June 2018
    B.Sc. student, Imperial College London
    Cryo-EM analysis of Aβ40 oligomers
    Advisor: Prof. Alfonso De Simone

    August 2016 - August 2017
    Erasmus Plus research student, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
    Structural characterisation of a FOS-producing yeast invertase
    Advisor: Prof. Maria Fernandez Lobato

  • Conference Presentations

    July 2022
    Royal Microscopical Society Virtual AFM & SPM Meeting 2022 (invited speaker)
    3D reconstruction of protein and helical filament structures from atomic force microscopy topographs

    August 2019
    Amyloid Diseases and Amyloid Mechanisms (ADAM 8) at Lund, Sweden
    3D reconstruction of single amyloid nano-filaments using atomic force microscopy topographs

    April 2019
    5th London Polymer Group Symposium
    Targeting the infectious potential of prion and prion-like pathogens

  • Teaching

    Software Carpentry workshops The Unix Shell, Programming with Python, and Git
    Helped deliver the courses over Zoom to University of Kent graduate students by live
    coding and small group tutoring

    Mentoring undergraduate research students

  • Skills

    Computational skills:
    MATLAB, Python, Git, Swift