Experience

Invibio

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Development Engineer

  • Dec 2022 - Present



DePuy Synthes

• United States
• Medical Device
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research and Test Engineer

  • Jul 2022 - Jan 2023

• Associate Test Engineer

  • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

• Graduate Engineer

  • Sep 2019 - Feb 2022

• Bioengineering Student Placement

  • Jun 2017 - Sep 2019



University of Nottingham

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Research Student

  • Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

  I took part in a placement working at The University of Nottingham within their school of pharmacy. I was given a project by my supervisor who had just received a fellowship for his research. My project was to carry on the research he had already started. I had to manufacture gold plated electrodes that I modified so they could be coupled with cells. As part of my project I also had to culture and passage my cells continuously throughout the 8 weeks. This then lead to the main objective of my work to see if there was electrochemical reaction.From this project I learnt many skills, I very much threw myself in at the deep end, I hadn’t done any reading on electrochemistry before and in fact hadn’t studied chemistry in detail since GCSE. Nevertheless being pushed out of my comfort zone is what allowed me to get the most out of my experience there. As well as improving my skills in cell culture and learning basic chemistry for modifying gold surfaces, I also learnt many analytical techniques. I spent time using FTIR as well as TOF-SIMS and learnt basic electrochemistry using potentiostats and working closely with a well respected, well educated team. My results from the placement, at the very end showed to be promising as I managed to prove that another cell line (CHO cells) did also show an electrochemical reaction. The reasoning behind the work that I did, leading on from what my supervisor had started, was to understand how cells communicate with each other. The electron transfer detected indicates that some form of communication is occurring. If this could lead to a greater understanding of the microenvironment of a cell it could lead to the control of manipulation of processes within the body. Hence electroceuticals could vastly improve patients all over the world with all kinds of conditions and diseases.