Scientific Researcher at Plant Organelle Technologies Ltd.

Responsibilities include fundraising support, budget planning and customer discovery; IP strategy and GMO regulatory studies with awareness of US/UK/EU regulations; advising on regulatory routes for new IPs and biotech products; establishing in vitro workflows to test organelle genome functions in a cell-free system; building and testing constructs with various reporting systems to quantify genomic functionalities; developing new traits in monocot crops via organelle biotech; collaboration with Dr Sadiye Hayta at John Innes Centre (Norwich) as part of the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) initiative; designing and optimizing Next-Generation Sequencing methods for organelles with bioinformatics and genomic data analysis; daily tissue culture management and general lab/growth chamber operations.

Postdoctoral Researcher / CEPLAS researcher at Max Planck Institute of Plant Breeding Research

Analyzed metabolic influences between green algae and associated microbial communities; used metabolic network models to predict key compounds and designed metabolomics experiments with mass spectrometry; established a high-throughput workflow to test microbial growth on different metabolites with automated liquid handling and robotics; designed a synthetic in vivo system in flasks to characterize microbial community structures under treatments derived from sequencing results; performed theoretical modelling of plant-associated microbial community assembly using ODE-based models; selected growth-beneficial bacterial strains for soybeans (collaboration); developed lab automation methods to rapidly identify key soil bacteria with high affinity to N/P/Ca/Mg/Fe/Cu/Phytate conditions from a collection of 221 strains; participated in soybean field tests with UAV-assisted phenotyping and AI-assisted image analysis; monitored plant physiology in-chamber (carbon fixation and stomata status) to

Venture Catalyst / Founder at Carbon13 Berlin

Joined Carbon13 Berlin Cohort 4 as a venture catalyst; founder of Garnï, a project focused on creating natural colourants and pigments using microorganisms.

Co-Founder at EIT Food Seedbed Cohort (Queen’s University of Belfast)

Participated as a founder of the plant fast-breeding technology project ‘EvoPlant’; project subsequently supported by Innovation Factory, The University of Manchester, and Innovate UK with a total grant of £257.81K.

CFO at Yes (Your Entrepreneurs Scheme) Competition

Participated as CFO in the team ‘Immunotame’, a biotech entrepreneurship project focused on optimising protein folding to produce reagents for potential clinical applications.

Volunteer Leader / Student Ambassador at HandsOn Shanghai

Recruited and managed a volunteer team with 30+ active members from multiple universities; designed volunteer programmes for five long-term partners in education, healthcare, and environmental protection.

Researcher at Wai Yin Society

Contributed to 'Crossing the Borders' research project focusing on the oral history of immigrants in Manchester in the 20th century; worked as a team member and supported community-focused initiatives.