bsc natural sciences · university of birmingham · 2020–2024
Birmingham gave me the biological and computational base for the work I do now. I studied Natural Sciences with a focus on biosciences, including molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, neurobiology, chemistry, omics, and philosophy of science.
By the final year, my work had shifted towards computational biology. My individual practical project investigated the effects of ethoprophos on Daphnia magna using RNA-Seq and metabolomics data. I carried out differential expression and pathway analysis in R, then explored gene and pathway networks in Python.
I graduated with First Class Honours. During the same period I completed a three-month software engineering internship at a startup, working in iOS development with Swift. It gave me experience writing and maintaining production code in a professional engineering environment.