My background spans upstream process development, synthetic biology, and metabolic engineering, coupled with graduate training in statistics (MS) and bioinformatics. I have research experience across biopharma (Bristol Myers Squibb, Takeda), academic (UT Austin, MIT), and startup (BioReNuva) environments. I have worked across bacterial, yeast, and mammalian cell culture.
At BioReNuva I developed the company’s first bioreactor fermentation process and led its transfer to manufacturing. My doctoral work in the Alper lab centered on the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica: I developed Golden Gate based genome editing and promoter library screening, performed adaptive laboratory evolution to raise tolerance to industrial waste streams, and integrated CFD modeling of high-oil-density fermentations.