Experience

Opto Biosystems

• United Kingdom
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO + Co-Founder

  • May 2022 - 1 year 8 months

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom Opto is on a mission to change the way we approach neurological disease treatment. I spend around 30% of my time building new technology, 35% trying to raise money, 30% administrating, and 10% replying to emails, which leaves ~2% of my time dedicated to reading old maths textbooks.



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Candidate

  • Oct 2018 - Feb 2023

  Cambridge, United Kingdom I spent my time trying to be an electronic engineer, neuroscientist, materials scientist, and surgical translator. Often failing at all and sometimes succeeding at one. We worked on translatable neurotechnologies with a specialism in minimally invasive spinal cord interfaces. My PhD was focused on bioelectronics, neural interfaces, and implantable devices under the supervision of Prof George Malliaras.



Vectura Group plc.

• United Kingdom
• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Lead Engineer - NPI

  • Jul 2018 - Nov 2018

  Chippenham Focused on the development, industrialisation and commercialisation of Vectura's medical device and drug pipeline. Working with pharmaceutical scientists and device development engineers within Vectura and across various global CMOs.

• Lead Scientist

  • May 2018 - Jul 2018

  Chippenham Whilst a Lead Scientist at Vectura, I worked across multiple pharmaceutical and engineering teams. I mainly focused my efforts on the development of several key, novel methodologies which allowed us to produce better pre-clinical data.

• Pharmaceutical Technology Scientist

  • Jun 2016 - May 2018

  Chippenham I was part of the Medical Device and External Technology team within the Pharmaceutical Technology group. Assessing novel external and internal technologies, developing testing techniques and working on the early development of products utilising our FOX and AKITA smart nebuliser platforms. I worked with mechanical and electronic engineers to characterise and improve products, as well as design solutions to improve laboratory methods, devices and systems.

• Associate Scientist

  • Oct 2015 - Jun 2016

  Chippenham



Philips

• Netherlands
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Aerosol Scientist (medical devices)

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

  Tangmere Development of the I-neb smart nebuliser device platform. -ISAM 2013 abstract (and accompanying conference poster) entitled: ''Dose Delivery Characteristics of Breath-Enhanced and Breath-Actuated Jet Nebulizers when run on Simulated Breathing''. Abstract reference: Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery. April 2013, 26(2): A-47. (doi:10.1089/jamp.2013.00A1) -ERS 2013 abstract entitled: ''Delivered dose comparison between breath-activated (metered dose and… Show more Development of the I-neb smart nebuliser device platform. -ISAM 2013 abstract (and accompanying conference poster) entitled: ''Dose Delivery Characteristics of Breath-Enhanced and Breath-Actuated Jet Nebulizers when run on Simulated Breathing''. Abstract reference: Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery. April 2013, 26(2): A-47. (doi:10.1089/jamp.2013.00A1) -ERS 2013 abstract entitled: ''Delivered dose comparison between breath-activated (metered dose and non-metered dose) and breath enhanced nebulizers''. -DDL 2013 abstract entitled: ''Delivered Dose Comparison between Breath-activated (Metered dose and Non-metered Dose) and Breath-enhanced Nebulizers'' Show less