Experience

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  Evonetix Ltd

  • United Kingdom
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Staff Engineer

    • Jan 2022 - Present

    Currently I lead Evonetix's simulation and systems modelling capabilities.Previously:Led systematic analysis and debugging project on our DNA synthesis platform.Led engagement with key opinion leaders in biotech community to place a prototype platform in the field.Led advanced chip project with our US partners, Analog Devices.

  • Senior Engineer

    • Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

    Formed part of new “integration” group at Evonetix to tackle hardest multidisciplinary problems and encourage agile mindset. This group was key in delivering key milestone of our series B funding - a full proof of concept of our Binary Assembly method.Recruited and mentored junior engineers in integration team, focussing on interpersonal aspects of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.Defined data collection protocol for TER, using FISH, microscopy, sampling theory, data management. Automated the protocol, increasing throughput by 100x.Defined data-extraction workflow. Incorporated insights from physics simulations to increase predictive power by 100x.Led simulation programme to determine behaviour of DNA exposed to thermal, electrical, and pressure fields. Bespoke Python finite difference method (FDM) simulations were augmented by 3D COMSOL simulations.

  • Engineer

    • Mar 2018 - Jan 2020

    Established optics expertise within company, having procured, installed, and trained users on fluorescent microscopes.Built an automated system for thermo-electrical characterisation of our silicon chips, with Python library to control hardware, run tests, and save and process data.Supported chemists and biologists with experimental planning, hardware integration, and modelling and analysis tools.

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  University of St Andrews

  • St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    • Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
    • St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

    Developed nano-lithographic procedures for fabrication of microscopic flexible meta-surfaces for microfluidic sensing applications.Built from scratch a holographic optical tweezers system to pilot flexible meta-surfaces through a microfluidic environment. Achieved increased confinement in the “z-direction”, overcoming stability limitations of traditional systems.